Emily Carr University of Art and Design

The bridge between abstract theory and practical knowledge is literally inexistent at this university.

Studying here was the worst decision of my life. A complete waste of my youth and money. I envy real art universities.

If you're serious about your career this really isn't the school for you. In the few classes actually related to my major teachers would just give us our assignments then leave, hoping we'd figure things out on our own. By the final year the vast majority of my classmates were struggling with the most basic skills needed to work in the industry.

The school requires you to take 3 useless language arts courses with loads of homework every week. Computers here have missing keyboard keys, broken mouses and the monitors randomly reboot.

The new campus absolutely blows. Dangerous area to walk in (lots of female students report being attacked, even in daylight) lots of theft of University property. Overpriced cafeteria food handed to you cold, in saran-wrap. Profs who are resistant to change, and couldn't care less about teaching any sort of technique.

Emily Carr might sound impressive in family reunions due to its fake reputation. However, the art director of your dream job knows that if you graduated from ECU, you will either lack the most basic foundation skills or that you had to go and learn everything on your own. In any case, they will expect technical lack from you... true story.

A great place to study if you want to learn nothing for actual industry work from faculty who have absolutely no idea what they are teaching and do whatever they want because they are "artists."

At the new campus, I sat down in a chair in the theatre, and it collapsed. I moved to another chair, and its arm fell off. In another class, we had to leave the blinds up all the time, because "the blinds are broken." We left Granville Island for this?

New campus, same intolerant instructors. Really, there's nothing around except for the expensive cafeteria. The profs I complained about since I was in foundation year are still here despite the terrible reviews they get each semester (now people just avoid them). I swear I can smell the studio instructors' insecurities about their own practice.

ECU was a mistake for me. I was there for the training, which I never got. Schoolism and other internet alternatives would have been better ways to get real knowledge and contact with people willing to share their REAL experience in the industry. At the end, I got an animation job, but I'm still working on the harm done to my health and mind.