2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the most popular for doctor's degree seekers in the field of visual and performing arts. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 60 doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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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. One of the reasons we created our Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking is to help you make that choice.

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 the Rocky Mountains Region

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 Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO

36 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Most Popular In CO

#1 Best Quality In CO

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts has to look into University of Colorado Boulder. Located in the midsize city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public university with a very large student population. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts in Colorado.

There were roughly 36 visual and performing arts students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from University of Colorado Boulder

2

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO

12 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#2 Most Popular In CO

#2 Best Quality In CO

University of Northern Colorado is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts. Located in the city of Greeley, University of Northern Colorado is a public university with a fairly large student population. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #2 in quality for doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts in Colorado.

There were roughly 12 visual and performing arts individuals who graduated with this degree at University of Northern Colorado in the most recent data year.

More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from University of Northern Colorado

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

12 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Most Popular In UT

#1 Best Quality In UT

University of Utah is a popular decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts in Utah.

There were about 12 visual and performing arts individuals who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from University of Utah

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Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, UT

#2 Most Popular In UT

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts needs to check out Brigham Young University - Provo. Located in the medium-sized city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from Brigham Young University - Provo

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the most popular visual and performing arts schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	26	32
Utah	23	12

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	56
Drama & Theater Arts	3
Fine & Studio Arts	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Visual & Performing Arts

Related Major	Annual Graduates
English Language & Literature	35
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	27
Philosophy & Religious Studies	19
Theology & Religious Vocations	5
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	3

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.