Art History is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #192 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Tennessee 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 39 degrees in art history during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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. We derive our Best Overall Art History School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The art history 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 Art History Schools in Tennessee.
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The schools below may not offer all types of art history degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Vanderbilt University if you want to pursue a degree in art history. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Nashville. A Best Colleges rank of #19 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Vanderbilt is a great university overall.
There were about 12 art history students who graduated with this degree at Vanderbilt in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in art history has to look into The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Located in the city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were approximately 4 art history students who graduated with this degree at UT Knoxville in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Memphis is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in art history. UofM is a fairly large public university located in the city of Memphis. This university ranks 9th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 9 art history students who graduated with this degree at UofM in the most recent data year.
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. We derive our Best Overall Art History School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
