Academics & Programs
Career Programs

Advertising & Design

The Advertising & Design CTE Program provides students with the knowledge, skills, and portfolio needed for employment as a designer. This career field involves the use of the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite combined with a student’s own creativity and design to create visually appealing projects. Students are introduced to HTML, CSS, HTML5 and JavaScript skills to confidently design their own website. This program focuses on developing the creativity and software skills necessary to be competitive in this field.

Certifications

List of 5 items.

  • Adobe Certified Associate in Adobe Illustrator CC

    • 94% of the web design students have earned Adobe Illustrator certification
  • Adobe Certified Associate in Adobe InDesign CC

    • 83% have earned InDesign certification since testing began in this area
  • Adobe Certified Associate in Adobe Photoshop CC

    • 89% have earned Adobe Photoshop certification.
  • CIW Site Development

  • OSHA 10

Destinations

Full-time or part-time employment doing freelance work as mixed media artist and designer.

Four-year colleges such as Cabrini University, The Art Institute of Philadelphia, Cabrini University, Rowan University and University of the Arts.

Two-year colleges such as Community College of Philadelphia.

About

Mercy Career & Technical High School opens doors and creates opportunities, providing contemporary job options and a non-traditional path to higher education.