When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in other visual art sits in the middle of the road, ranking #206 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for other visual art students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 37 bachelor's degrees in other visual art to qualified students.
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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 many resources a school devotes to other visual art students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of other visual art students who choose to seek a bachelor'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 easy is it for other visual art 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 other visual art related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other visual art 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 Other Visual Art Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois 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.
Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
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Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in other visual art needs to take a look at Millikin University. Millikin is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Decatur.
After graduation, other visual art bachelor's recipients typically make an average of $22,815 at the beginning of their careers.
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).
