Fine & Studio Arts is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #22 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 437 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of fine & studio arts. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 23,952 bachelor's degrees in fine & studio arts during the <nil> academic year.
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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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 full 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.
The fine arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Fine & Studio Arts in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts has to check out University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. 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 around $6,140 above the average earnings of fine & studio arts graduates.
University of Southern California is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles.
Fine & Studio Arts bachelor's degree recipients from University of Southern California earn a boost of about $24,934 over the typical income of fine & studio arts graduates.
It's difficult to beat Cornell University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Ithaca.
Those fine & studio arts students who get their bachelor's degree from Cornell University make $5,846 more than the typical fine arts student.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts needs to look into University of Washington - Seattle Campus. Located in the city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a fairly large student population.
After graduation, fine arts bachelor's recipients typically make around $25,947 in their early careers.
Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the fine & studio arts program at University of Georgia make $8,829 more than the standard college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a very large student population.
Fine & Studio Arts bachelor's degree recipients from University of Wisconsin - Madison receive an earnings boost of approximately $5,276 over the average income of fine & studio arts graduates.
Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Those fine & studio arts students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Pennsylvania make $13,593 more than the average fine arts graduate.
Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Columbus.
Fine & Studio Arts bachelor's degree recipients from Ohio State University - Main Campus receive an earnings boost of about $3,959 above the average income of fine & studio arts majors.
UMCP is a very large public university located in the large suburb of College Park.
Bachelor's recipients from the fine & studio arts degree program at University of Maryland - College Park earn $6,804 more than the standard graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the fine & studio arts major at The University of Texas at Austin earn $6,861 more than the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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Remaining Award Winners
This list shows the remainder of the colleges awarded a Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools badge.
Showing in this list means the college was ranked in the top 20% of the 437 different United States fine & studio arts schools we analyzed.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools award.
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).