Columbia College

Now (checked 2026)

Status
Merged / renamed

Now known as
Columbia College Chicago — School of Visual Arts (jewelry/metals now only as course content within Fine Arts / Fabrication Facility)

What happened
If the entry refers to Columbia College Chicago (the most likely match — it is the only "Columbia College" with a serious art-school identity and AICAD membership, and historically taught jewelry/metals within its Art & Art History / Fine Arts program): the metals/jewelry offering was never a standalone degree and has been absorbed into the general Fine Arts curriculum and the campus Fabrication Facility (a 15,000 sq ft shared making space with jewelry/metalworking stations, soldering room, pickle pot, etc.). In December 2024 the college announced budget-driven cuts: it is discontinuing the standalone Fine Arts MFA, Art History BA, and several other degrees (new-student enrollment ending Fall 2025) and consolidating Fine Arts/Photography/Illustration toward a single Visual Arts BA, with disciplines like metals continuing only as course content/concentrations. So: no closure of a named metals program (there wasn't one), but the umbrella Fine Arts program that contained it is being restructured/renamed into Visual Arts.

Link
www.colum.edu/academics/visual-arts/