In just over a month, I’ll finally be graduating after four-and-a-half years of college education. That isn’t bad compared to some of my colleagues who have been in college for five, six, seven, even eight years.

The Graphic Design program at the University of Minnesota is not a bad program but it isn’t good either. Let me start by saying that every professor/instructor I’ve had in the design program have been extremely helpful in my design education. I’m not bashing them nor the University of Minnesota. Instead, I’m criticizing design education in general.

Here is why design education sucks:

1. Instructors and Students are too nice.

2. Design is subjective, so is the education.

3. Bad design habits are picked up quite easily.

4. Experience is much more valuable.

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