2025 Best Fine Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
113Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in fine arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #125 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Fine Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 113 associate degrees in fine arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to fine arts students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of fine arts students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fine arts related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for fine arts students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Fine Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Delta College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in fine arts. Located in the rural area of University Center, Delta College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in fine arts from Delta College
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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).