2024 Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools
Fine & Studio Arts is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #22 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 498 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for fine & studio arts students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 24,602 bachelor's degrees in fine & studio arts to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Fine & Studio Arts School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of fine & studio arts for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on fine & studio arts students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other fine & studio arts students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for fine & studio arts to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fine & studio arts related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for fine & studio arts students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Fine & Studio Arts Schools
The fine arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Featured Fine & Studio Arts Programs
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Fine & Studio Arts in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
25 Top Schools for a Bachelor's in Fine Arts
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts needs to take a look at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. U-M is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor.
Bachelor's recipients from the fine & studio arts degree program at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor get $8,289 above the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
More information about a bachelor’s in fine & studio arts from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of Southern California is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles.
Bachelor's recipients from the fine & studio arts major at University of Southern California get $4,464 more than the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts needs to check out University of Notre Dame. Located in the suburb of Notre Dame, Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in fine & studio arts from University of Notre Dame
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts has to take a look at University of Washington - Seattle Campus. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Those fine & studio arts students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Washington - Seattle Campus earn $5,845 more than the standard fine arts grad.
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Located in the city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in fine & studio arts from Duke University
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