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3. Art History, Criticism and Conservation

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	Princeton University	36	2%	$70,900
11	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	36	0%	$27,638
12	CUNY Hunter College	35	1%	$22,379
13	University of California-Berkeley	35	0%	$38,066
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	Christie's Education	29	71%	N/A
18	University of California-Santa Barbara	29	0%	$36,659
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	28	0%	$30,298
20	The University of Texas at Austin	27	0%	$26,506
21	University of Kansas	26	0%	$26,566
22	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	26	0%	$32,443
23	SUNY Buffalo State	26	1%	$25,846
24	University of Southern California	25	0%	$74,825
25	Syracuse University	25	0%	$70,636
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	University of North Texas	23	0%	$24,712
31	Temple University	23	0%	$33,004
32	University of California-Riverside	22	0%	$35,242
33	University of California-Davis	22	0%	$35,177
34	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	22	0%	$36,652
35	Indiana University-Bloomington	22	0%	$24,779
36	Virginia Commonwealth University	21	0%	$32,041
37	Academy of Art University	21	1%	$44,226
38	Ohio State University-Main Campus	21	0%	$27,367
39	University of Pennsylvania	21	0%	$74,408
40	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	20	0%	$23,811
41	Stanford University	20	0%	$71,587
42	Old Dominion University	20	0%	$26,456
43	Western Washington University	18	0%	$24,077
44	Oberlin College	18	2%	$74,636
45	American University	18	0%	$66,268
46	University of California-Irvine	18	0%	$34,261
47	University of Colorado Boulder	18	0%	$31,044
48	George Washington University	18	0%	$71,930
49	Southern Methodist University	18	0%	$74,737
50	University of Wisconsin-Madison	18	0%	$26,025
51	Tulane University of Louisiana	18	1%	$72,296
52	University of Georgia	17	0%	$26,688
53	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	17	0%	$27,898
54	Brown University	17	1%	$73,802
55	SUNY at Purchase College	17	2%	$26,982
56	University of Chicago	16	0%	$78,555
57	George Mason University	16	0%	$30,284
58	University of South Florida-Main Campus	16	0%	$23,320
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	University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras	15	1%	$19,876
65	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	15	0%	$23,977
66	University of Delaware	15	0%	$29,342
67	Harvard University	15	0%	$71,650
68	Wellesley College	14	2%	$72,250
69	Portland State University	14	0%	$26,085
70	Williams College	14	2%	$73,200
71	University of Maryland-College Park	14	0%	$27,146
72	Pratt Institute-Main	14	1%	$67,742
73	University of Denver	14	0%	$67,656
74	Blinn College	14	1%	$18,690
75	University of South Carolina-Columbia	13	0%	$28,301
76	Boston College	13	0%	$73,092
77	Middlebury College	13	2%	$71,980
78	Fordham University	13	0%	$74,265
79	Tufts University	13	0%	$73,500
80	Kenyon College	13	3%	$71,780
81	University of California-San Diego	13	0%	$32,838
82	University of Oregon	12	0%	$27,366
83	Emory University	12	0%	$69,502
84	Stony Brook University	12	0%	$26,091
85	Wesleyan University	12	1%	$72,669
86	University of Iowa	12	0%	$24,239
87	Flagler College-St Augustine	12	2%	$34,990
88	College of Charleston	12	0%	$30,239
89	Florida International University	12	0%	$23,506
90	Mount Holyoke College	12	2%	$66,558
91	South Dakota State University	11	0%	$23,127
92	Smith College	11	1%	$72,701
93	Binghamton University	10	0%	$26,866
94	University of Arizona	10	0%	$29,217
95	University of Utah	10	0%	$24,472
96	Bowdoin College	10	2%	$70,710
97	Washington University in St Louis	10	0%	$74,361
98	Mansfield University of Pennsylvania	10	2%	$29,062
99	California College of the Arts	10	2%	$67,074
100	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	9	0%	$29,097

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.