Ranked #22 in popularity, fine & studio arts is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 9 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for fine & studio arts students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 560 bachelor's degrees in fine & studio arts to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Fine & Studio Arts School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of fine & studio arts for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. 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.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on fine & studio arts students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other fine & studio arts students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for fine & studio arts to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fine & studio arts related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for fine & studio arts students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Michigan ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the city of Ann Arbor.
Fine & Studio Arts bachelor's degree recipients from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor get an earnings boost of approximately $7,344 over the average income of fine & studio arts majors.
Michigan State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the fine arts program make around $19,566 in the first couple years of working.
It's difficult to beat Grand Valley State University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. Located in the town of Allendale, GVSU is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the fine arts program make about $24,135 in their early career salary.
Wayne State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. Wayne State is a very large public university located in the city of Detroit.
After graduating, fine arts bachelor's recipients typically earn around $20,948 in their early careers.
Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Ypsilanti.
Those fine & studio arts students who get their bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan University earn $4,867 more than the standard fine arts student.
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).
Your choice of fine & studio arts for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
