If you plan on majoring in art history, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #192 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for art history students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 degrees in art history annually.
The art history program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Art History rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for art history 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 Art History Schools in Colorado list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the art history degree levels they offer.
University of Colorado Boulder is a great option for students interested in a degree in art history. CU - Boulder is a fairly large public university located in the city of Boulder. A Best Colleges rank of #145 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were about 17 art history students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Denver if you want to pursue a degree in art history. Located in the city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #174 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were about 17 art history students who graduated with this degree at DU in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Metropolitan State University of Denver if you want to pursue a degree in art history. MSU Denver is a fairly large public university located in the city of Denver. This university ranks 24th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 4 art history students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in art history has to take a look at Colorado Mesa University. Located in the small city of Grand Junction, Colorado Mesa is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 26th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.More information about a degree in art history from Colorado Mesa University
Best Art History Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
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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The art history program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Art History rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for art history schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
