2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Maine
2Colleges in Maine
312Visual & Performing Arts Degrees Awarded
$27,860Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in visual & performing arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #10 out of 38 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Maine ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 312 degrees in visual & performing arts annually.
The visual & performing arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Maine.
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Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts in Maine
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the visual & performing arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in visual & performing arts has to take a look at Maine College of Art. Maine College of Art is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Portland.
Students who graduate with their degree from the visual & performing arts program state that they receive average early career wages of $26,255.
Every student pursuing a degree in visual & performing arts has to check out University of Southern Maine. Located in the small city of Portland, University of Southern Maine is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
Graduates who receive their degree from the visual & performing arts program make about $20,721 in their early career salary.
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).
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