2024 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Rhode Island
4Colleges in Rhode Island
745Visual & Performing Arts Degrees Awarded
$28,667Avg Early-Career Salary
Visual & Performing Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #10 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of visual & performing arts. Combined, these schools handed out 745 degrees in visual & performing arts to qualified students.
Your choice of visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for visual & performing arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Rhode Island list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts in Rhode Island
The schools below may not offer all types of visual & performing arts degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Rhode Island Schools in Visual & Performing Arts
Every student pursuing a degree in visual & performing arts needs to check out Brown University. Located in the midsize city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #21 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Brown is a great university overall.
There were approximately 115 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Brown in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, visual & performing arts degree recipients typically make an average of $22,550 in the first five years of their career.
Any student who is interested in visual & performing arts has to check out Rhode Island School of Design. RISD is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Providence.
There were roughly 277 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at RISD in the most recent data year. Those visual & performing arts students who get their degree from Rhode Island School of Design earn $4,164 more than the standard visual & performing arts grad.
It is difficult to beat University of Rhode Island if you wish to pursue a degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the large suburb of Kingston, URI is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 119 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, visual & performing arts degree recipients usually earn around $27,006 in their early careers.
Rhode Island College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the suburb of Providence, RIC is a public college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 9th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were approximately 77 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at RIC in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the visual & performing arts program make around $26,654 in the first couple years of working.
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 visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for visual & performing arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
