Career opportunities and top colleges for Arts in India

India is a land where different kinds of people are present, where people have different choices and different preferences according to their likes and dislikes. The choices in terms of food, living, education, job, all has changed with the commencement of modern developments in the country. People have got more options and varieties to choose from, for any item or topic one say. The global scenario has also made the people more choosy and demanding, due to which their priorities and preferences have changed.

All this has lead to increased options for students to opt for their career fields. The most basic courses for education like arts and commerce have also expanded their arenas and have included lot more areas of profession in their basket. Earlier arts was considered as the most lower graded and the low level of education, which was opted by the students, who used to be very weak in studies. But, with the changing times, students have started opting for arts as a career oriented course, which leads to a varied number of career opportunities. Different career opportunities in the field of arts, which a student can opt for:

• Commercial arts
• Media and mass communication
• Law
• Politics
• Psychology
• English honours
• Advertising
• Public relations
• Content management
• Crisis management
• Foreign language courses
• Research oriented jobs
• Marketing jobs
• Film industry including acting, direction and production
• Photography

Admission in to courses of arts is also not an easy process these days. Competition has surely captured each and every field of education and students have to be extra smart and creative to be able to pursue education in the field of arts.  Some of the skills possessed by an art student are:

v     Creative and have great imagination skills. Arts colleges’ works towards polishing the creative and innovative skills of the students, so that they are able to make proper use of their skills in the work field.

v     Have great persuasion powers, by the use of which they can influence their clients or customers

v     Have good arguing power, the use of which many arts students have shown in their law career

v     Expression power, due to detailed subjects and theories in their curriculum, arts students are said to have great oral and written communication skills. The write-ups written by them can truly make the reader picturise the whole view, written. In fact great writers also hail from the arts background.

v     Good interpretation and analytical skills. The students of arts possess great abilities to analyse things and solve the puzzles with their analytical skills.

v     The talent to formulate and structurise the information according to the requirements and the demands of the conditions present. They have got this creativity to mould and present the points as per the need of the situation.

v     Students from the field of arts have this artistic ability o design and plan things in a very organised and a fashionable manner.

v     Arts students also have good management and administration skills. They have great expertise in managing events

There are varied number of arts colleges in India, which provides education to a large number of students, and help them fulfilling their dreams and career goals. List of top arts colleges in India are:

v     Loyola College, Chennai

v     St Stephens College, Delhi

v     Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi

v     St Xavier's College, Mumbai

v     St Xavier's College, Kolkata

v     Presidency College, Kolkata

v     St. Joseph's College Bangalore

v     Christ College Bangalore

v     Madras Christian College

v     Presidency College, Chennai

The admission to these arts colleges in India depends on the status and the prestige of the college in the country. Though, all the above mentioned colleges are the most renowned colleges of the country in the fields of arts and have separate admission procedures for every subject or course.