2024 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general visual & performing arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #94 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 76 bachelor's degrees in general visual & performing arts to qualified students.

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general visual & performing arts students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general visual & performing arts students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt general visual & performing arts students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general visual & performing arts related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general visual & performing arts students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Visual & Performing Arts Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Visual & Performing Arts in Wisconsin

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general visual & performing arts.

Top Wisconsin Schools for a Bachelor's in Visual Arts

1

University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Whitewater, WI

41 Annual Graduates

$28,110 Median Starting Salary

$24,500 Median Student Debt

University of Wisconsin - Whitewater is a good choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in general visual & performing arts. UW - Whitewater is a fairly large public university located in the town of Whitewater.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the visual arts program state that they receive average early career earnings of $28,110.

More information about a bachelor’s in general visual & performing arts from University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

2

University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI

20 Annual Graduates

$25,267 Median Starting Salary

$29,350 Median Student Debt

It's difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Stout if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in general visual & performing arts. UW - Stout is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Menomonie.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the visual arts program state that they receive average early career wages of $25,267.

More information about a bachelor’s in general visual & performing arts from University of Wisconsin - Stout

Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	261	2
Ohio	252	47
Illinois	241	49
Indiana	235	16

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General Visual & Performing Arts Related Rankings by Major

General Visual & Performing Arts is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Visual Arts Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Digital Arts	76

Majors Similar to Visual Arts

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts	531
Design & Applied Arts	396
Music	295
Drama & Theater Arts	256
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	141
Dance	41
Arts & Media Management	18

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.