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Most Popular Schools for Art History, Criticism and Conservation Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the study of the historical development of art as social and intellectual phenomenon, the analysis of works of art, and art conservation. Includes instruction in the theory of art, art history research methods, connoisseurship, the preservation and conservation of works of art, and the study of specific periods, cultures, styles, and themes.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 New York University 112 1% $73,566
2 Sotheby's Institute of Art-NY 110 100% N/A
3 Columbia University in the City of New York 73 1% $76,856
4 The New School 58 2% $71,361
5 University of California-Los Angeles 57 0% $34,620
6 Yale University 41 1% $73,900
7 Florida State University 40 0% $22,168
8 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 39 0% $33,503
9 School of Visual Arts 38 3% $66,768
10 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 36 0% $27,638
11 Princeton University 36 2% $70,900
12 University of California-Berkeley 35 0% $38,066
13 CUNY Hunter College 35 1% $22,379
14 Bard College 35 5% $72,768
15 Barnard College 31 5% $74,777
16 University of California-Santa Cruz 30 1% $36,217
17 University of California-Santa Barbara 29 0% $36,659
18 Christie's Education 29 71% N/A
19 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 28 0% $30,298
20 The University of Texas at Austin 27 0% $26,506
21 SUNY Buffalo State 26 1% $25,846
22 University of Kansas 26 0% $26,566
23 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 26 0% $32,443
24 Syracuse University 25 0% $70,636
25 University of Southern California 25 0% $74,825
26 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 25 2% $67,870
27 Boston University 24 0% $72,618
28 Brigham Young University-Provo 24 0% $18,776
29 University of Houston 23 0% $23,225
30 Temple University 23 0% $33,004
31 University of North Texas 23 0% $24,712
32 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 22 0% $36,652
33 University of California-Davis 22 0% $35,177
34 University of California-Riverside 22 0% $35,242
35 Indiana University-Bloomington 22 0% $24,779
36 Ohio State University-Main Campus 21 0% $27,367
37 Virginia Commonwealth University 21 0% $32,041
38 University of Pennsylvania 21 0% $74,408
39 Academy of Art University 21 1% $44,226
40 Old Dominion University 20 0% $26,456
41 Stanford University 20 0% $71,587
42 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 20 0% $23,811
43 American University 18 0% $66,268
44 University of Colorado Boulder 18 0% $31,044
45 University of Wisconsin-Madison 18 0% $26,025
46 Oberlin College 18 2% $74,636
47 Southern Methodist University 18 0% $74,737
48 George Washington University 18 0% $71,930
49 University of California-Irvine 18 0% $34,261
50 Western Washington University 18 0% $24,077
51 Tulane University of Louisiana 18 1% $72,296
52 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 17 0% $27,898
53 University of Georgia 17 0% $26,688
54 Brown University 17 1% $73,802
55 SUNY at Purchase College 17 2% $26,982
56 George Mason University 16 0% $30,284
57 University of South Florida-Main Campus 16 0% $23,320
58 University of Chicago 16 0% $78,555
59 University of Florida 16 0% $21,211
60 Bryn Mawr College 16 3% $70,860
61 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 16 0% $30,913
62 DePaul University 16 0% $57,678
63 State University of New York at New Paltz 16 1% $25,641
64 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 15 0% $23,977
65 University of Delaware 15 0% $29,342
66 University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 15 1% $19,876
67 Harvard University 15 0% $71,650
68 Portland State University 14 0% $26,085
69 Blinn College 14 1% $18,690
70 University of Denver 14 0% $67,656
71 Wellesley College 14 2% $72,250
72 University of Maryland-College Park 14 0% $27,146
73 Williams College 14 2% $73,200
74 Pratt Institute-Main 14 1% $67,742
75 Boston College 13 0% $73,092
76 Middlebury College 13 2% $71,980
77 University of California-San Diego 13 0% $32,838
78 Tufts University 13 0% $73,500
79 University of South Carolina-Columbia 13 0% $28,301
80 Kenyon College 13 3% $71,780
81 Fordham University 13 0% $74,265
82 Stony Brook University 12 0% $26,091
83 Wesleyan University 12 1% $72,669
84 University of Iowa 12 0% $24,239
85 Emory University 12 0% $69,502
86 Flagler College-St Augustine 12 2% $34,990
87 Mount Holyoke College 12 2% $66,558
88 College of Charleston 12 0% $30,239
89 University of Oregon 12 0% $27,366
90 Florida International University 12 0% $23,506
91 South Dakota State University 11 0% $23,127
92 Smith College 11 1% $72,701
93 Binghamton University 10 0% $26,866
94 Washington University in St Louis 10 0% $74,361
95 University of Arizona 10 0% $29,217
96 Mansfield University of Pennsylvania 10 2% $29,062
97 University of Utah 10 0% $24,472
98 Bowdoin College 10 2% $70,710
99 California College of the Arts 10 2% $67,074
100 Texas State University 9 0% $23,130

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Art History, Criticism and Conservation 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.