New Zealand’s Media Design School ranks 4th in YoungGuns top 10 global ad schools

New Zealand’s Media Design School featured in fourth place in the YoungGuns top 10 advertising schools worldwide. Two Australian schools, RMIT and AWARD School, placed fifth and sixth respectively, giving the Trans-Tasman region three of the top 10 places. Miami Ad School in Germany topped the list with alumni of the school picking up the Student YoungGun of the Year award three times in the past decade, in 2005, 2008 and 2009.  

The Top 10 Schools ranking identifies the schools that have produced the most awarded creative students in the 10 years since the YoungGuns were founded.  The USA took the second and third spots in the ranking, with the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Miami Ad School in Florida respectively. The Miami Ad Schools in Minneapolis and San Francisco also placed.  From Europe, schools in Sweden and Norway feature in the top 10. in addition to Germany’s number one spot. 

The top 10 

1 Miami Ad School, Europe Germany

2 School of Visual Arts New York USA

3 Miami Ad School, Florida USA

4 Media Design School New Zealand

5 RMIT University Australia

6 AWARD School Australia

7 Berghs School of Communication Sweden

8 Miami Ad School, Minneapolis USA

9 Miami Ad School, San Francisco USA

10 Westerdals School of Communication Norway

Entries are now open for the world’s best young professionals and students to enter this year’s awards, which recognize emerging creative talent in a number of fields and are the premier global platform for defining creative talent – http://www.ygaward.com

Over the next month, YoungGuns will release a number of other Top 10 rankings on a specially designed,website  that celebrates the young talent and incubator organizations that have nurtured those creative aspirations across YoungGuns last 10 years.