537 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Founded in 1968, the New England School of Photography continues to rank as one of the top photography schools in the United States, establishing a reputation as a place where students uncover their personal vision and mature in technique. NESOP only enrolls approximately 150 talented students a year, ensuring small class sizes and one-on-one interaction between students and its highly regarded faculty. In addition to outstanding facilities, students enter a nurturing environment where they learn photography and tap into their creativity.

The New England School of Photography curriculum prepares students for work and to pursue additional educational opportunities through Bachelor of Fine Arts programs. The two-year photography program offers majors and minors in advertising and commercial photography, editorial and corporate photography, portraiture and wedding photography, photojournalism, digital arts, fine art color photography, documentary photography, architectural photography, fashion photography and fine art black and white photography.

Because many photographers are self-employed or work on a freelance basis, it is important that they develop solid business skills. The New England School of Photography requires that students take business courses, regardless of major or minor. Students learn promotion and business management and gain the skills necessary to run a small business.

NESOP students have access to a wide range of analog and digital equipment, including more than 45 black-and-white workstations located in three large darkrooms, more than 20 individual color printing rooms, portrait studios, scanner printers, private film processing rooms, large-format cameras and a digital imaging lab with 40 imaging stations equipped with Macintosh computers, large monitors, photo printers and Wireless Internet connections.

Quick Facts

The New England School of Photography is one of approximately 800 institutions accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology and licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Education.

NESOP offers job placement assistance to graduates of its two-year professional photography program and actively contacts graduates to inform them via the placement office about jobs for five years after your graduation date.

Class sizes at the New England School of Photography range from eight to 18 students for instructional and lab classes, and max out at 35 students for a lecture class.

During the two-year photography program, students take 12 courses over three terms during the first year, and two to three courses per term during their second year, which ends with a portfolio review.

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