The main focus area for this major is Visual & Performing Arts. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
General Visual & Performing Arts is a major offered under the visual and performing arts program of study at University of Illinois at Chicago. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in visual arts, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at UIC was ranked #89 on College Factual's Best Schools for visual arts list. It is also ranked #1 in Illinois.
Here are some of the other rankings for UIC.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at UIC paid an average of $804 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $456 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $12,105 | $26,726 |
Fees | $3,322 | $3,322 |
Books and Supplies | $1,400 | $1,400 |
On Campus Room and Board | $12,000 | $12,000 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $3,470 | $3,470 |
Learn more about UIC tuition and fees.
Online degrees for the UIC visual arts bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UIC Online Learning page.
Women made up around 62.5% of the visual arts students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 58.0%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 50.0% of the visual arts bachelor’s degrees at UIC in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 40%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 4 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
General Visual & Performing Arts students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Visual & Performing Arts | 8 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to general visual and performing arts.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Design & Applied Arts | 68 |
Drama & Theater Arts | 25 |
Fine & Studio Arts | 33 |
Music | 9 |
Arts & Media Management | 3 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.