Boston

Come to the Greater Boston area and be exactly yourself.

You'll find that whatever you are into, you won't be alone. Regarded as a world-class city, Boston is home to more than 250,000 students and 70 colleges. Abounding with old-world charm, the cobblestoned streets of the Italian North End and the brownstones of Beacon Hill are among the city's historic treasures. City constants (Swan Boats, the Freedom Trail) are paired with cutting-edge components (Institute of Contemporary Art, avant garde theatre groups, Frank Gehry modernist masterpieces) to give Boston a bustling yet ambient feel. One of the city's most beloved gems, historic Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, is only two short blocks from AIB's main building.

Boston is filled with fascinating nooks and crannies, some obvious and others that you will find for yourself. Think bookstores, used record stores, thrift shop nirvana. Newbury Street is lined with art galleries, European-style cafés, and boutiques. Additionally, there are many interesting and vibrant areas such as Chinatown, artsy Jamaica Plain and Brickbottom, and Portuguese and Brazilian neighborhoods found just across the river in Cambridge. Boston attracts some of the best, brightest, and most creative in the world, and AIB has been particularly lucky to be able to hand pick faculty who are attracted to this scene.

Going to school in the Boston area gives you so much more.

It gives you access to a range of experiences. Voted the safest U.S. city by tourists, Boston's neighborhoods are diverse yet compact in size. Many areas are easily reached by walking, and an efficient bus and subway system allows students to travel around the city quickly. Leave AIB or your dorm at Lesley University in Cambridge and in no time, you'll be catching a flick at the ever-cool Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square or choosing among Indian, Thai, or nouvelle cuisine in Coolidge Corner (Brookline); in an hour, you'll be swimming, whale watching, or digging for quahogs on the Cape Cod seashore (or in the winter, skiing in Vermont!); or in four hours, you'll be catching a taxi in New York to meet a friend in Washington Square.

Our Boston and Cambridge locations give you a chance to do some interesting and enlightening work as you fulfill your internship requirement. In your junior or senior year, you can work with one of Boston's top design firms. If you are an animation major, the experience you gain from an internship with a post-production house will be invaluable. Internships are a great way for students in all majors to begin building their resumes and contacts. Students have interned at leading corporations, design firms, advertising agencies, photography studios, galleries, museums, and more—including Big Blue Dot, The Boston Globe, The Copley Society, Design Continuum, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Lego Systems, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass Moca), Mullen Advertising, Reebok, and WGBH.