2025 Best Painting Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
8Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
229Painting Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in painting, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #517 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 8 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for painting students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 229 degrees in painting annually.
Your choice of painting school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for painting schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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 Painting Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Painting in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the painting degree levels they offer.
Maryland Institute College of Art is a great option for students interested in a degree in painting. Located in the city of Baltimore, MICA is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
There were roughly 44 painting students who graduated with this degree at MICA in the most recent data year.
Pratt Institute - Main is a great option for students pursuing a degree in painting. Located in the large city of Brooklyn, Pratt Institute is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.
There were roughly 40 painting students who graduated with this degree at Pratt Institute in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Temple University if you wish to pursue a degree in painting. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #97 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Temple is a great university overall.
There were roughly 34 painting students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Purchase College if you wish to pursue a degree in painting. Purchase College is a small public college located in the suburb of Purchase. This college ranks 53rd out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 34 painting students who graduated with this degree at Purchase College in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the town of New Paltz, SUNY New Paltz is a public school with a medium-sized student population. This school ranks 73rd out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 9 painting students who graduated with this degree at SUNY New Paltz in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the rural area of Alfred, Alfred is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 56th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 5 painting students who graduated with this degree at Alfred in the most recent year we have data available.
Arcadia is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Glenside. A Best Colleges rank of #502 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Arcadia is a great university overall.
There were roughly 1 painting students who graduated with this degree at Arcadia in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of painting school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for painting schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
