Fine & Studio Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #58 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for fine & studio arts students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 132 master's degrees in fine & studio arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Fine & Studio Arts School for Your Master's Degree
The fine arts master's 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. 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 for a Master's Degree 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 master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master'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 - The number of fine & studio arts students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 much debt fine & studio arts students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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 colleges for fine & studio arts students working on their master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Georgia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It's difficult to beat Savannah College of Art and Design if you want to pursue a master's degree in fine & studio arts. SCAD is a large private not-for-profit college located in the medium-sized city of Savannah.
Fine & Studio Arts master's degree recipients from Savannah College of Art and Design receive an earnings boost of around $11,195 above the average income of fine & studio arts graduates.
Any student who is interested in a master's degree in fine & studio arts needs to look into University of Georgia. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Master's students who receive their degree from the fine arts program make about $18,590 in their early career salary.
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).
The fine arts master's 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
