2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in Indiana

If you plan on getting your master's degree in visual & performing arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #10 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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Indiana to determine which ones were the best for visual & performing arts students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 300 master's degrees in visual & performing arts to qualified students.

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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 master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master'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 visual & performing arts students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of visual & performing arts students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• 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 much debt visual & performing arts students go into to obtain their master'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 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 master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Indiana list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Visual & Performing Arts in Indiana

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in visual & performing arts.

Top Indiana Schools for a Master's in Visual & Performing Arts

1

Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

229 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in visual & performing arts has to look into Indiana University - Bloomington. IU Bloomington is a fairly large public university located in the city of Bloomington.More information about a master’s in visual & performing arts from Indiana University - Bloomington

2

Ball State University
Muncie, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

25 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Ball State University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in visual & performing arts. Ball State is a very large public university located in the small city of Muncie.More information about a master’s in visual & performing arts from Ball State University

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	34	909
Ohio	32	637
Michigan	31	354
Wisconsin	31	115

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	208
Fine & Studio Arts	37
Arts & Media Management	20
Drama & Theater Arts	17
Design & Applied Arts	13
General Visual & Performing Arts	5

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.