2025 Best Art Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
6Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
243Associate Degrees
Ranked #49 in popularity, art studies is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for art studies students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 243 associate degrees in art studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Art Studies School for Your Associate Degree
The art studies associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to art studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other art studies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized art studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for art studies students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Art Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Nassau Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in art studies. Located in the large suburb of Garden City, Nassau Community College is a public college with a large student population.More information about a associate in art studies from Nassau Community College
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).