2025 Best Art History Schools in Connecticut

A degree in art history is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #192 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for art history students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 88 degrees in art history to qualified students.

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Pick Your Art History Degree Level

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 Art History Schools in Connecticut list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Art History in Connecticut

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the art history degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Connecticut Schools in Art History

1

Connecticut College
New London, CT

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student pursuing a degree in art history needs to look into Connecticut College. Located in the city of New London, Conn College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a degree in art history from Connecticut College

2

University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

It's difficult to beat University of Hartford if you want to pursue a degree in art history. UHart is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of West Hartford.More information about a degree in art history from University of Hartford

Best Art History Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Art History Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	854	171
Rhode Island	436	24
Maine	396	12
New Hampshire	395	10
Vermont	352	20

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Art History Related Rankings by Major

Art History is one of 13 different types of Fine & Studio Arts programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Art History

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Fine Arts	230
Art Studies	94
Printmaking	24
Painting	10
Sculpture	6
Ceramic Arts & Ceramics	6
Other Fine Arts & Art Studies	3
Intermedia/Multimedia	1

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Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

More about our data sources and methodologies.