When it comes to popularity, printmaking sits in the middle of the road, ranking #862 out of 1506 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of printmaking. Combined, these schools handed out 21 degrees in printmaking to qualified students.
Your choice of printmaking 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 printmaking schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Printmaking Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of printmaking 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 Temple University if you want to pursue a degree in printmaking. Temple is a very large public university located in the city of Philadelphia.
There were approximately 16 printmaking students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts if you wish to pursue a degree in printmaking. PAFA is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.
There were about 3 printmaking students who graduated with this degree at PAFA in the most recent year we have data available.
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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