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

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in Utah ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 154 master's degrees in visual & performing arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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

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 - How many other visual & performing arts students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• 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 easy is it for visual & performing arts to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• 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 schools for visual & performing arts students working on their master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Utah ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

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

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

1

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, UT

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

Brigham Young University - Provo is a good option for individuals interested in a master's degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the medium-sized city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in visual & performing arts from Brigham Young University - Provo

2

Southern Utah University
Cedar City, UT

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

98 Annual Graduates

Southern Utah University is a great option for individuals interested in a master's degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the remote town of Cedar City, Southern Utah University is a public university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in visual & performing arts from Southern Utah University

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	30	276
Montana	26	42
Idaho	25	42
Wyoming	23	15

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	103
Arts & Media Management	25
Fine & Studio Arts	8
Other Visual Art	8
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	6
Dance	3
Drama & Theater 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.