2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Kentucky
7Colleges in Kentucky
1,183Visual & 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for visual & performing arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,183 degrees in visual & performing arts to qualified students.
Your choice of visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Visual & Performing Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Kentucky.
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Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts in Kentucky
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.
Any student pursuing a degree in visual & performing arts has to check out University of Kentucky. UK is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #220 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were about 287 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent data year. Visual & Performing Arts degree recipients from University of Kentucky receive an earnings boost of approximately $10,474 over the average earnings of visual & performing arts graduates.
University of Louisville is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the city of Louisville, UofL is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #421 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UofL is a great university overall.
There were about 128 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at UofL in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the visual & performing arts program state that they receive average early career wages of $24,876.
Northern Kentucky University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in visual & performing arts. NKU is a large public university located in the large suburb of Highland Heights. A Best Colleges rank of #842 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means NKU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 125 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at NKU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the visual & performing arts program report average early career wages of $26,850.
Any student who is interested in visual & performing arts has to take a look at Western Kentucky University. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 152 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, visual & performing arts degree recipients typically make around $28,437 in their early careers.
Eastern is a fairly large public university located in the town of Richmond. This university ranks 12th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 61 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Eastern in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, visual & performing arts degree recipients typically make around $25,674 in the first five years of their career.
Located in the town of Murray, Murray State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 16th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 60 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Murray State in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the visual & performing arts program state that they receive average early career income of $27,808.
Located in the town of Morehead, Morehead State University is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 27th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 62 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Morehead State University in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, visual & performing arts degree recipients generally make around $17,301 in the first five years of their career.
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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Your choice of visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Visual & Performing Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
