Culture

Our Mission

Portfolio Center’s primary objective is to provide the most highly specialized design and advertising education available, to produce industry leaders in the concentrations of design and art direction, advertising art direction, writing, media architecture, illustration, and photography. We measure our success by the degree of professional and personal achievement attained by our graduates.

Our Community

Portfolio Center is no cakewalk, to be sure. It’s demanding and competitive, rigorous and intense. But students, alumni, and faculty alike all still maintain a sense of camaraderie and community that endures through school and beyond.

Our graduates populate the top agencies and design studios on the planet. Which means the people with whom you labor mightily to get through every Critique Week at PC are likely to be the same people you’ll collaborate with in the future. And the cycle continues: alumni at the top of their game in the industry come back to Portfolio Center to share what they’ve learned with each new group of talent.

You become part of an enduring network, united in a shared sense of drive and common experience.