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

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.