If you plan on majoring in art therapy, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #465 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for art therapy students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 102 degrees in art therapy annually.
Your choice of art therapy school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Art Therapy School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Art Therapy Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of art therapy degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
New York University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in art therapy. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #16 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were about 10 art therapy students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Hofstra University if you want to pursue a degree in art therapy. Located in the large suburb of Hempstead, Hofstra is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 28th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 22 art therapy students who graduated with this degree at Hofstra in the most recent data year.
LIU Post is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in art therapy. LIU Post is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Brookville. A Best Colleges rank of #216 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means LIU Post is a great school overall.
There were about 18 art therapy students who graduated with this degree at LIU Post in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Nazareth College if you want to pursue a degree in art therapy. Nazareth is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Rochester. This college ranks 88th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 8 art therapy students who graduated with this degree at Nazareth in the most recent year we have data available.
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 art therapy school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Art Therapy School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
