Most Popular Schools for General Fine/Studio Arts Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to generally function as creative artists in the visual and plastic media. Includes instruction in the traditional fine arts media (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, CAD/CAM) and/or modern media (ceramics, textiles, intermedia, photography, digital images), theory of art, color theory, composition and perspective, anatomy, the techniques and procedures for maintaining equipment and managing a studio, and art portfolio marketing.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	School of the Art Institute of Chicago	774	77%	$67,870
2	California State University-Fullerton	247	2%	$27,738
3	California State University-Long Beach	203	2%	$24,738
4	San Jose State University	174	2%	$29,193
5	University of Central Florida	144	1%	$22,548
6	Bard College	136	20%	$72,768
7	CUNY City College	126	4%	$29,967
8	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	122	2%	$26,231
9	Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis	117	2%	$22,537
10	CUNY Hunter College	116	2%	$22,379
11	University of North Texas	111	1%	$24,712
12	Edinboro University of Pennsylvania	110	7%	$25,600
13	The University of Texas at Arlington	108	1%	$26,660
14	Florida State University	105	1%	$22,168
15	School of Visual Arts	104	9%	$66,768
16	Fashion Institute of Technology	96	3%	$24,220
17	The New School	95	3%	$71,361
18	Towson University	85	1%	$26,834
19	East Carolina University	85	1%	$21,672
20	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	81	1%	$30,360
21	CUNY LaGuardia Community College	81	3%	$6,734
22	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	77	1%	$20,471
23	University of Florida	76	1%	$21,211
24	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus	76	2%	$29,357
25	Portland State University	73	1%	$26,085
26	University of Wisconsin-Madison	71	1%	$26,025
27	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	71	27%	$66,313
28	Alfred University	71	10%	$45,104
29	University of North Florida	68	2%	$21,384
30	Northern Illinois University	68	1%	$29,117
31	University of Arizona	67	1%	$29,217
32	University of Nebraska at Omaha	66	2%	$22,300
33	Indiana University-Bloomington	66	1%	$24,779
34	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale	65	2%	$29,367
35	University of Colorado Boulder	65	1%	$31,044
36	University of Maryland-College Park	65	1%	$27,146
37	San Francisco Art Institute	65	41%	$71,069
38	University of North Carolina at Greensboro	64	2%	$21,297
39	University of Louisville	62	1%	$27,980
40	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	62	1%	$28,302
41	University of California-Berkeley	61	1%	$38,066
42	University of Northern Colorado	61	2%	$25,494
43	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	60	1%	$27,476
44	Pratt Institute-Main	58	4%	$67,742
45	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	57	1%	$24,936
46	New York University	56	0%	$73,566
47	Florida International University	56	0%	$23,506
48	Loyola Marymount University	56	2%	$67,369
49	The University of Texas at Austin	55	0%	$26,506
50	Metropolitan State University of Denver	53	2%	$9,066
51	Bridgewater State University	53	2%	$26,811
52	Northern Kentucky University	53	2%	$23,244
53	University of California-Davis	52	1%	$35,177
54	Texas State University	51	1%	$23,130
55	University of South Carolina-Columbia	47	1%	$28,301
56	The University of Alabama	47	1%	$29,872
57	Kansas State University	46	1%	$24,923
58	Art Center College of Design	46	8%	$47,416
59	University of California-Santa Barbara	45	1%	$36,659
60	Fort Lewis College	45	7%	$25,428
61	Hudson County Community College	45	5%	$7,218
62	Salisbury University	44	2%	$25,774
63	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	44	1%	$23,694
64	University of Kansas	44	1%	$26,566
65	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	43	1%	$30,913
66	California Institute of the Arts	43	11%	$71,135
67	Fort Hays State University	42	1%	$18,048
68	University of Connecticut	41	1%	$32,404
69	Appalachian State University	40	1%	$19,194
70	University of Houston-Clear Lake	40	2%	$23,276
71	CUNY Brooklyn College	40	1%	$8,604
72	California College of the Arts	40	8%	$67,074
73	CUNY Queens College	39	1%	$28,907
74	University of Pennsylvania	39	1%	$74,408
75	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	39	1%	$28,058
76	Western Kentucky University	39	1%	$21,840
77	Bowling Green State University-Main Campus	38	1%	$24,915
78	Purdue University Fort Wayne	38	2%	$22,200
79	Otis College of Art and Design	38	12%	$66,160
80	Kent State University at Kent	37	0%	$25,886
81	Michigan State University	37	0%	$28,862
82	Minnesota State University-Mankato	37	1%	$20,482
83	CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College	37	1%	$6,534
84	University of Kentucky	36	1%	$30,101
85	The University of West Florida	35	1%	$19,014
86	Stockton University	35	2%	$30,838
87	The University of Texas at El Paso	35	1%	$23,843
88	University of South Florida-Main Campus	34	0%	$23,320
89	CUNY Queensborough Community College	33	1%	$6,574
90	Lesley University	33	2%	$49,255
91	Yale University	33	1%	$73,900
92	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	33	1%	$31,510
93	West Chester University of Pennsylvania	32	1%	$27,074
94	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	32	1%	$19,493
95	Western Carolina University	32	1%	$17,705
96	Rhode Island College	32	2%	$23,398
97	University of Mississippi	32	1%	$25,436
98	Washington University in St Louis	31	1%	$74,361
99	Kutztown University of Pennsylvania	31	2%	$27,890
100	University of Rhode Island	31	1%	$30,351

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Fine/Studio Arts, General 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.