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Most Popular Schools for Museology/Museum Studies Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the attitudes, knowledge, and skills required to develop, prepare, organize, administer, conserve, store and retrieve artifacts, exhibits and entire collections in museums and galleries, and that prepares individuals to assume curatorial, technical and managerial positions in museums. Includes instruction in institutional management, acquisition, exhibit design, conservation, packing techniques, and public relations.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Johns Hopkins University 117 1% $71,901
2 George Washington University 84 1% $71,930
3 Harvard University 45 1% $71,650
4 New York University 37 0% $73,566
5 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 32 0% $27,638
6 University of Iowa 21 0% $24,239
7 University of San Francisco 20 1% $68,296
8 Georgetown University 20 0% $73,840
9 Western Illinois University 19 1% $25,997
10 SUNY Oneonta 19 1% $25,028
11 Texas Tech University 17 0% $24,472
12 Seton Hall University 17 1% $59,670
13 Syracuse University 17 0% $70,636
14 Tufts University 17 1% $73,500
15 Ohio University-Main Campus 16 0% $28,986
16 John F. Kennedy University 15 6% $8,500
17 Southern University at New Orleans 14 3% $21,353
18 The University of the Arts 13 3% $67,741
19 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 12 0% $24,486
20 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 12 0% $22,537
21 San Francisco State University 11 0% $27,480
22 University of Oregon 10 0% $27,366
23 University of Illinois at Chicago 10 0% $30,866
24 Drexel University 9 0% $70,223
25 School of Visual Arts 8 1% $66,768
26 University of Kansas 8 0% $26,566
27 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 8 0% $22,639
28 University of Memphis 8 0% $25,423
29 University of West Georgia 8 0% $24,396
30 Rochester Institute of Technology 8 0% $57,401
31 John Tyler Community College 7 0% $6,220
32 Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg 7 1% $33,396
33 University of Florida 6 0% $21,211
34 California College of the Arts 6 1% $67,074
35 Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development 6 10% $21,384
36 University of Colorado Boulder 5 0% $31,044
37 SUNY Buffalo State 5 0% $25,846
38 Fashion Institute of Technology 5 0% $24,220
39 University of Akron Main Campus 5 0% $27,279
40 Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville 5 0% $25,637
41 Baylor University 4 0% $62,527
42 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 4 0% $30,298
43 Walsh University 3 0% $44,236
44 St John's University-New York 3 0% $61,408
45 University of Minnesota-Duluth 3 0% $24,614
46 Moore College of Art and Design 3 3% $60,292
47 Cleveland State University 3 0% $29,045
48 University of St Thomas 3 0% $56,664
49 University of South Dakota 3 0% $22,856
50 University of Tulsa 3 0% $59,725
51 University of South Carolina-Columbia 3 0% $28,301
52 Tusculum University 3 1% $40,780
53 CUNY Queensborough Community College 3 0% $6,574
54 New Mexico State University-Main Campus 3 0% $21,380
55 Saint John Fisher College 2 0% $49,210
56 Brigham Young University-Provo 2 0% $18,776
57 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 2 0% $27,476
58 Morgan State University 2 0% $24,101
59 University of Maryland-College Park 2 0% $27,146
60 Massasoit Community College 2 0% $6,264
61 Wright State University-Main Campus 1 0% $25,116
62 Middle Tennessee State University 1 0% $22,964
63 Casper College 1 0% $13,132
64 University at Buffalo 1 0% $27,758
65 Arizona State University-Tempe 1 0% $28,048
66 University of Missouri-St Louis 1 0% $24,894
67 Juniata College 1 0% $60,368
68 University of Arizona 1 0% $29,217
69 CUNY Hunter College 1 0% $22,379
70 Eastern Michigan University 1 0% $26,196
71 Concordia College at Moorhead 1 0% $51,798
72 San Francisco Art Institute 1 1% $71,069

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Museology/Museum Studies program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.