What Makes Us Different

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AKTO has become Greece’s market-leading College of Art & Design through four key qualities.

Pioneering spirit

AKTO has, for four decades, been a pioneering institution. AKTO created Greece's first undergraduate degree courses in Photography, 3D Animation & Multimedia Productions, Cartoon-Sketch-Comics and Fashion Design, long before these disciplines were introduced in public universities and other private colleges.

AKTO also holds the only validated Product Design course in the country.

 

 

Comprehensiveness

AKTO is also distinguished by its comprehensiveness in the field of Design.

No other public or private college or university in Greece offers such a broad array of Design-oriented degree courses as AKTO. Our accredited courses are as follows:

AKTO also offers three degree programmes resulting in an AKTO degree certificate:

Flexibility

This breadth of choice is complemented by an enormous degree of flexibility. Students may study full-time or part-time, at campuses in Athens and Thessaloniki, or from home. In this way AKTO remains accessible to professionals across Greece wishing to re-train, re-orient or re-invest in themselves, as well as to High School graduates. AKTO also offers a broad programme of seminar-based studies for the professional community, or undergraduates wishing to specialise in a particular direction. Students may take as many elective modules as their schedules allow, regardless of what discipline they are enrolled in. In this way, AKTO offers its students a possibility of cross-fertilisation found nowhere else in higher education in Greece.

Professional ethos

AKTO's teaching philosophy over the years has been to promote Design-oriented disciplines through professionals in their respective fields. AKTO's faculty consists almost entirely of expert practitioners who are in a position to track changing trends in the Greek and international market, and endow students both with the rigorous academic learning required of the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, and an awareness of professional practice and integrity. Our Career Office is a key component of the alumni benefits scheme, channelling almost a thousand jobs each year to our approximately 400 graduates.