To provide excellence in the delivery of a global education in visual, design, media, and related arts, with attendant studies in the history and theory of those disciplines set within a broad-based humanistic curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences. To provide instruction for this education in a range of formats: written, spoken, media, and exhibition-based.

The Art Institute moved to its current iconic location on Michigan Avenue after the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and it remains the largest museum-school partnership in the country. Today, SAIC offers six undergraduate degrees and twelve graduate degrees, as well as post-baccalaureate certificates and continuing studies programs.

School
Museum
Undergraduate Studies
Graduate Studies
Libraries
Adult, children's, high school, summer and teacher courses