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

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.

In 2022, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Missouri ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 26 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. As an aid in helping you pick the right school for you, we created our Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Missouri ranking.

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 Missouri

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 Missouri - Kansas City
Kansas City, MO

16 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#3 Best Quality In MO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts needs to check out University of Missouri - Kansas City. Located in the city of Kansas City, UMKC is a public university with a fairly large student population. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #3 in quality for doctor's degrees in visual and performing arts in Missouri.

There were roughly 16 visual and performing arts individuals who graduated with this degree at UMKC in the most recent year we have data available.

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Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO

6 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In MO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Washington University in St Louis is a popular decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts. WUSTL is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Saint Louis. 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 Missouri.

There were approximately 6 visual and performing arts students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year.

More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from Washington University in St Louis

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University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MO

4 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In MO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in visual and performing arts has to take a look at University of Missouri - Columbia. Located in the midsize city of Columbia, Mizzou 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 Missouri.

There were approximately 4 visual and performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available.

More information about a doctorate in visual and performing arts from University of Missouri - Columbia

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	27	51
Iowa	27	30
Kansas	25	33
Nebraska	23	19
North Dakota	20	3

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	22
Fine & Studio Arts	3
Drama & Theater Arts	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Visual & Performing Arts

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Theology & Religious Vocations	141
English Language & Literature	21
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	18
Philosophy & Religious Studies	9

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.