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2023 Most Popular General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree 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.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Most Popular General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones were the most popular master's degree programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the General Visual & Performing Arts program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for visual arts majors pursuing a master's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named Columbus College of Art and Design the most popular school in the Great Lakes Region for general visual and performing arts students working on their master’s degree. CCAD is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Columbus.

Women make up 79% of the visual arts majors at the school.

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The in-demand master’s degree programs at School of the Art Institute of Chicago helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular general visual and performing arts schools in the Great Lakes Region . School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

Women make up 78% of the visual arts majors at the school.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. IUPUI is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Indianapolis.

About 56% of the students majoring in visual arts at the school are women while 44% are male.

Full General Visual & Performing Arts at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis Report

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a great place for general visual and performing arts students working on their master’s degree. U-M is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.

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The in-demand master’s degree programs at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular general visual and performing arts schools in the Great Lakes Region . UWM is a fairly large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best general visual and performing arts schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 0
Illinois 9
Ohio 18
Indiana 9
Wisconsin 0

General Visual & Performing Arts is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.

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 5 schools only.

  • 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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