2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

a doctor's degree in visual & performing arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #14 out of 36 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of visual & performing arts. Combined, these schools handed out 45 doctor's degrees in visual & performing arts to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to visual & performing arts students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of visual & performing arts students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt visual & performing arts students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized visual & performing arts related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for visual & performing arts students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Visual & Performing Arts Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Visual & Performing Arts in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in visual & performing arts.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Doctorate in Visual & Performing Arts

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in visual & performing arts needs to check out University of Utah. Located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in visual & performing arts from University of Utah

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

25 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in visual & performing arts needs to take a look at University of Colorado Boulder. Located in the midsize city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in visual & performing arts from University of Colorado Boulder

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best visual & performing arts colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	27	36
Utah	24	12

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	41
Drama & Theater Arts	3
Fine & Studio Arts	1

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 Bonnielou2013. More about our data sources and methodologies.