AAA School of Advertising Contact Details: Email, Location & Phone Numbers

Get your marketing communications career on course at AAA School of Advertising.

Ideas can change the world. If your mind is #BrilliantlyDifferent, unleash its full potential at the birthplace of brilliant – the AAA School of Advertising.

Start an amazing journey with qualifications that take you places.

Admired and recognised worldwide, we are the only tertiary institution created by and for the advertising profession. Established in 1990 by the AAA (Association of Advertising Agencies), now known as the Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA), we are the official higher education institution for the South African advertising industry.

Our campuses are located in Sandton and Cape Town.

Our strong connection with the ACA means we have both the support of its members and access to a wealth of experts from the advertising profession. In addition, our lecturers are respected academics and industry professionals who deliver the most up-to-date, relevant tuition. These are just some of the reasons our students receive employment offers even before they graduate, or while serving their mandatory internships.

Additionally, our approach to teaching advertising and marketing communication is totally integrated and incorporates the challenges of new technology and new media (e.g., digital and mobile media). Our students are given real campaigns to work on, integrating both theory and practice.

Our vision

Recognising the needs of advertising agencies, designcompanies, mediaagencies and marketers,the AAA’s vision incorporates the necessity to maintain globally recognized standards for world class education and training of students.This is achieved whilst supporting the advertising industry in achieving its transformation objectives. The vision is “To produce the world’s most integrated marketing communications practitioners for adigitally led world.” .

Our mission

The mission is set in the deep desire to develop, liberate and fan the creative and lateral thinking energies within students and academics to produce, via an integrated approach, graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills who can add value to employers in the marketing, advertising and communication industries. The mission is “To be a world class, innovative, technology inspired provider of future skills in the digital, creative and advertising space, creating commercial value and facilitating transformation.”

Our credentials

• IAA accredited
• Registered by the DHET as a PHEI (Private Higher Education Institution)
• Our qualifications are accredited by the CHE (Council on Higher Education) and recorded on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF)
• Rated by Austrian Lürzer’s Archive as one of the best advertising schools in the world