About Savannah College of Art and Design

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France.

Founded in 1978 to meet the expense of degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the United States, the university circles now operates two locations in Georgia, a degree-granting online education program, and a examination abroad location in Lacoste, France. The academic world enrolls greater than 14,000 students from across the United States and roughly the world as soon as international students comprising going on to 17 percent of the student population. SCAD is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and further professional accrediting bodies.

Savannah (/səˈvænə/) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county chair of Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and cutting edge the first confess capital of Georgia. A strategic harbor city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia’s fifth-largest city, with a 2019 estimated population of 144,464. The Savannah metropolitan area, Georgia’s third-largest, had an estimated population of 393,353 in 2019.

Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings. These buildings supplement the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA), the Georgia Historical Society (the oldest continually working historical charity in the South), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South’s first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African-American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third-oldest synagogue in the U.S.), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail skill in the U.S.).

Savannah’s downtown area, which includes the Savannah Historic District, the Savannah Victorian Historic District, and 22 parklike squares, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States (designated by the U.S. government in 1966). Downtown Savannah largely retains the native town want prescribed by founder James Oglethorpe (a design now known as the Oglethorpe Plan). Savannah was the host city for the sailing competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta.