Meet The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, a PDP Downtown Visionary member. The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division together comprise a collegiate community of 15,000 students and employees and established itself in Downtown Pittsburgh in 1921.

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh now offers 14 bachelor’s degree programs including Advertising, Culinary Management, Digital Media Production, Entertainment Design, Fashion & Retail Management, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design, Hotel & Restaurant Management, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Media Arts & Animation, Photography, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics and Web Design & Interactive Media. Advertising, Fashion & Retail Management, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Media Arts & Animation and Web Design & Interactive Media programs are also available fully online through The Art Institute Pittsburgh – Online Division.

Visitors are welcome The Art Institute’s Gallery of Art, open for public browsing six days a week with an annual schedule of exhibitions including student, faculty, alumni and special interest community shows. Dining enthusiasts are encouraged to experience A Taste of Art, a public restaurant situated on the college’s ninth floor. Amid the vibrant activity of The Art Institute’s culinary department, the restaurant is a classroom come to life featuring lunch three days a week presented by aspiring culinarians under the expert direction of chef faculty who deliver personal experience from all over the world.

Still, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh’s historic impact on American culture is a story best told through the successes of more than 55,000 alumni.

Residents of Pittsburgh are often surprised to learn about Art Institute graduates who got their start in Pittsburgh and went on to influence our daily lives as photojournalists for major metropolitan newspapers and interior designers for major firms and hotels and hospitals; entertaining us on the feature films, television shows and video games that everyone is talking about.

Art Institute of Pittsburgh Industrial Design graduates create the innovative new products we all want to buy, the cars we drive and the children’s toys we love. Video and digital media specialists bring us the news and tell the stories we watch everyday. The advertising and graphic design industry is influenced by Art Institute graduates who create visual communications for agencies, corporations and non-profit organizations all over the world.

Today, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh continues to make an impact on the Downtown landscape by introducing three new student housing complexes and over 900 year-round residents, each within three blocks of the college, located on the Boulevard of the Allies between Smithfield and Grant Streets.

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh is recognized with accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools and maintains programmatic accreditation with the American Culinary Federation and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.

George L. Pry, President, Art Institute of Pittsburgh