Other Visual Art is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #201 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for other visual art students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 249 master's degrees in other visual art during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Other Visual Art School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of other visual art for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality other visual art program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on other visual art students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other other visual art students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt other visual art 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 other visual art related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for other visual art students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Other Visual Art Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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New York University is a good option for students interested in a master's degree in other visual art. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.
Students who graduate with their master's from the other visual art program state that they receive average early career wages of $33,948.
It's hard to beat Bard College if you wish to pursue a master's degree in other visual art. Located in the rural area of Annandale-On-Hudson, Bard is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a master’s in other visual art from Bard 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).
Your choice of other visual art for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality other visual art program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
