:: Boston

Come to the Greater Boston area and be exactly yourself. You'll find that whatever you are into you won't be alone. With more than a half million students flocking to Boston every year, the city feels both constant (brownstones, Swan Boats, Freedom Trail) and cutting-edge (Institute of Contemporary Art, avant garde theatre groups, Frank Gehry modernist masterpieces).

Boston is filled with fascinating nooks and crannies, some are obvious and others you will find for yourself. Think bookstores, used record stores, thrift shop nirvana. Boston attracts some of the best and brightest in the world, while still maintaining its ambiance and manageability. 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. All you need is a transit ticket: 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 digging for quahogs (an unattractive yet tasty New England clam) at the seashore; 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 internships. In your junior or senior year you can work with one of Boston's top design firms, for example. If you are an animation major, the experience you gain from an internship with a post-production house will be invaluable. Internships are also a great way to begin building your resume and your 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.