2024 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Jersey
3Colleges in New Jersey
180Visual Arts Degrees Awarded
$21,246Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in general visual & performing arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #116 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Jersey ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 180 degrees in general visual & performing arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Visual & Performing Arts School
Your choice of general visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Visual & Performing Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your General Visual & Performing Arts Degree Level
The visual arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Jersey.
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Best Schools for General Visual & Performing Arts in New Jersey
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the visual arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
Stockton University is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in general visual & performing arts. Stockton State is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Galloway. A Best Colleges rank of #628 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Stockton State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 29 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Stockton State in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Ramapo College of New Jersey if you wish to pursue a degree in general visual & performing arts. Ramapo College is a moderately-sized public college located in the suburb of Mahwah. This college ranks 20th out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 12 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Ramapo College in the most recent data year.
Bloomfield College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general visual & performing arts. Bloomfield College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Bloomfield. This college ranks 42nd out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were approximately 51 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Bloomfield College in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the visual arts program earn around $21,246 in their early career salary.
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).
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Your choice of general visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Visual & Performing Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
