2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in Florida

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in visual & performing arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #14 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in Florida ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 96 doctor's degrees in visual & performing arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 visual & performing arts students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other visual & performing arts students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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 visual & performing arts to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized visual & performing arts related body.

Our complete 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in Florida list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Visual & Performing Arts in Florida

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for visual & performing arts students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Florida Schools for a Doctorate in Visual & Performing Arts

1

University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

35 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in visual & performing arts has to check out University of Miami. U Miami is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Coral Gables.More information about a doctorate in visual & performing arts from University of Miami

2

Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

48 Annual Graduates

Florida State University is a good option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the city of Tallahassee, Florida State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in visual & performing arts from Florida State University

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Virginia	29	41
Georgia	28	21
Mississippi	28	11
South Carolina	28	15
North Carolina	26	20
Kentucky	26	19
Alabama	25	10
Tennessee	25	13
Louisiana	25	19
West Virginia	20	16

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	85
Fine & Studio Arts	7
Drama & Theater Arts	4

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.