2025 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Massachusetts
4Colleges in Massachusetts
225Visual Arts Degrees Awarded
$27,435Avg Early-Career Salary
General Visual & Performing Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #116 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for general visual & performing arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 225 degrees in general visual & performing arts to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Visual & Performing Arts School
The visual arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Visual & Performing Arts rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Visual & Performing Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Visual & Performing Arts Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Visual & Performing Arts in Massachusetts
The schools below may not offer all types of visual arts degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Northeastern University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general visual & performing arts. Located in the large city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #33 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Northeastern is a great university overall.
There were about 13 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Northeastern in the most recent year we have data available.
Lesley University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general visual & performing arts. Lesley is a small private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge. A Best Colleges rank of #528 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Lesley is a great university overall.
There were about 27 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Lesley in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the visual arts program earn an average of $20,600 for their early career.
Every student who is interested in general visual & performing arts has to look into University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. Located in the midsize suburb of North Dartmouth, UMass Dartmouth is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 42nd out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 27 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at UMass Dartmouth in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the visual arts program make an average of $25,753 in the first couple years of working.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general visual & performing arts. MCLA is a small public college located in the town of North Adams. This college ranks 1574th out of 2,152 schools for overall quality nationwide.
There were about 17 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at MCLA 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).
The visual arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Visual & Performing Arts rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Visual & Performing Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
