Miami Advert College, thought of one of many world’s prime promoting and design colleges, is closing one in all its campuses.
The Atlanta campus will shut down in six months as a consequence of declining enrollment within the area, Rebecca Rovirosa, chief artistic officer and educational director of Miami Advert College, instructed ADWEEK.
The present college students in Atlanta will proceed their Miami Advert College research in Miami, New York, or on-line, Rovirosa stated.
Miami Advert College has greater than 150 college students enrolled throughout its campuses with the bulk in Miami and New York, Rovirosa stated. The Atlanta campus, opened in 2015, “had a small cohort, and sadly, the campus was not sustainable,” she stated.
The information comes after Miami Advert College’s Toronto location shut down in March. Toronto was a franchised and independently operated location, and Miami Advert College’s U.S. headquarters had no advance discover of its closure, Rovirosa stated.
Some college students there haven’t been reimbursed for his or her tuition, the Toronto Star reported.
“We care deeply about all college students and alumni, and by no means stand behind the mistreatment of scholars in any means,” she stated, including that one affected Toronto pupil has since transferred to Miami Advert College’s on-line course.
“In the event you or somebody you realize was impacted, we’d love to assist, whether or not that’s entry to our on-line program at a diminished value or different assist choices.”
The Atlanta campus shuts down two years after Miami Advert College closed its San Francisco campus in Could 2023. The college was acquired by Groupe EDH, a French larger training group, in the identical 12 months.
Like different advert colleges, Miami Advert College has confronted challenges for the reason that Covid-19 pandemic briefly halted in-person training and amid the trade’s ongoing digital disruption, as ADWEEK beforehand reported. Atlanta’s Artistic Circus closed in 2023, and the U.Ok.’s Watford Course shuttered in 2021.
Miami Advert College’s remaining North American campuses are Miami and New York. It additionally has partnerships with worldwide colleges in cities equivalent to Berlin, Buenos Aires, Madrid, and Mexico Metropolis.
Since its founding in 1993, Miami Advert College has gained worldwide recognition, profitable the Future Lions College of the 12 months award at Cannes Lions seven instances, together with 2025.
“Miami Advert College stays robust and rising,” Rovirosa stated, including it has launched an AI for Creatives course and can relocate its New York campus to a brand new facility in Manhattan in 2026.
