2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Maryland

A doctor's degree in visual and performing arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #13 out of 33 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the most popular for doctor's degree seekers in the field of visual and performing arts. Combined, these schools handed out 49 doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Visual & Performing Arts School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of school for getting your doctor's degree in visual and performing arts matters. We created our Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Maryland ranking to make it a little easier to choose the right one for you.

Being popular does not always equate to overall quality, but a school with a large number of visual and performing arts students usually has them for a reason. This may be due to it being a great value, it offering a stellar educational experience, or the subject is a major focus of the school.

More Ways to Rank Visual & Performing Arts Schools

This is not our only ranking, nor the only degree level we have ranked. In addition to this ranking, you may want to take at the rankings for different degree levels as called out above. You can also narrow your search by location by filtering for a certain area of the country. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for visual and performing arts.

 

Most Popular Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Visual & Performing Arts in Maryland

Below you'll see a list of the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts.

Most Well Attended Schools for Visual & Performing Arts Students Working on Their Doctorate

1

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

30 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Maryland - College Park is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #2 in quality for doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts in Maryland.

There were roughly 30 visual and performing arts students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from University of Maryland - College Park

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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

19 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at Johns Hopkins University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts in Maryland.

There were about 19 visual and performing arts individuals who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year.

More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from Johns Hopkins University

3

University of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts has to look into University of Baltimore. Located in the city of Baltimore, UB is a public university with a small student population. More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from University of Baltimore

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Most Popular Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	30	253
Pennsylvania	29	57
New Jersey	28	44
District of Columbia	24	11
Delaware	19	4

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	40
Fine & Studio Arts	7
Drama & Theater Arts	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Visual & Performing Arts

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	20
English Language & Literature	14
Philosophy & Religious Studies	13
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	9
Theology & Religious Vocations	8

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.