9 Book Illustration Degree Programs

Immerse yourself in exploring professional and practical approaches to children’s illustration as well as engaging in the academic study of children's literature, to gain an in-depth understanding of the relationships between image, text, readers and context in the world of children’s literature.

What is the Comic Art Career Program? It is an international degree that prepares you to become a professional comic artist, with dual certification USA–Spain, hands-on training in sequential art, visual storytelling, and character design, plus a competitive portfolio for international publishers and agents.

Are you passionate about comics, graphic novels and visual stroytelling? Now you can go from being a mere reader to devoting yourself professionally to producing them yourself. It doesn't matter what level you start from or your previous studies. You can become a professional and turn your passion into your profession. We will guide you like true mentors and show you step by step how to achieve it.

Turn your passion for storytelling into an international career. The Master’s in Comic Art prepares you to create characters, narratives, and digital comic pages with editorial quality, using Photoshop and Clip Studio.

Experiment with methods, explore ideas and critically reflect on your practice to develop your own personal visual vocabulary. Create original children’s book projects, supported by a team of internationally-recognised illustrators. The first course of its kind, MA Children’s Book Illustration was established at Cambridge School of Art in 2001 and is led by Course Leader Shelley Jackson. Over the last twenty years, we’ve seen hundreds of graduates publish children’s books around the world, many to critical acclaim. Students and graduates often dominate national and international awards, too.

MICA's Book Arts Studio Minor is an interdisciplinary framework that allows students an opportunity to study the complexities of the book as a material object and conveyor of artistic meaning.

MCAD’s Print Paper Book major offers students a hands-on learning experience across three disciplines: printmaking, papermaking, and the artist’s book. By investigating traditional processes, new technologies, and historical context, these students expand the definition, audience, and possibilities of these versatile media.

Accounting courses provide the essential foundation needed to succeed in these career areas: Management: general management, financial management, budget management, assets management, controller, treasurer Private Accounting: general financial accounting, accounting information systems design, cost accounting, budgeting, taxation, internal auditing, data processing Public Accounting — CPAs: auditing, tax compliance and tax planning services, management advisory services, computerized accounting systems

If financial data, statistical reports, databases, and spreadsheets perk you up instead of drag you down, a career in bookkeeping may be just for you. In our Bookkeeping course online, you will learn the bookkeeper’s role as a specialist within an accounting department and graduate prepared to take the National Association of Certified Public Bookkeepers (NACPB) Bookkeeper Certification Exam. Individuals, families, and businesses of all kinds rely on bookkeepers to keep their financial affairs on track—that person could be you!