2023 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools
Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts School for You
General Visual & Performing Arts is the #194 most popular major in the country with 390 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 32 schools in the United States to see which programs offered the best educational experiences for students.
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2023 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the United States
Check out the visual arts programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.
Top 10 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools
Our analysis found Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to be the best school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a degree in the United States. RPI is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Troy.
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The excellent programs at University of Central Florida helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best general visual and performing arts schools in the United States. UCF is a very large public school located in the suburb of Orlando.
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Out of the 32 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the # 3 spot on the list. Iowa is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Iowa City.
Out of the 32 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the # 4 spot on the list. UM is a large public school located in the city of Missoula.
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Out of the 32 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Pittsburgh.
Texas Tech University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best general visual and performing arts programs. Located in the large city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public school with a very large student population.
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University of Florida landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best general visual and performing arts programs. Located in the city of Gainesville, UF is a public school with a very large student population.
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With a ranking of #8, Syracuse University did quite well on this year’s best schools for general visual and performing arts students. Located in the city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
Columbia University in the City of New York came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools ranking. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York.
The University of Texas at Dallas landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best general visual and performing arts programs. UT Dallas is a very large public school located in the city of Richardson.
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General Visual & Performing Arts by Region
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General Visual & Performing Arts Related Rankings by Major
One of 9 majors within the area of study, general visual and performing arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Visual Arts
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Music | 7,675 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 3,224 |
| Design & Applied Arts | 1,979 |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 1,704 |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 1,699 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.
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