2024 Best Fine & Studio Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in fine & studio arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #97 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for fine & studio arts students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 8 doctor's degrees in fine & studio arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to fine & studio arts students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other fine & studio arts students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt fine & studio arts students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fine & studio arts related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for fine & studio arts students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Fine & Studio Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Fine & Studio Arts in Texas

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in fine & studio arts.

Top Texas Schools for a Doctorate in Fine Arts

1

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX

Southern Methodist University is a good option for students pursuing a doctor's degree in fine & studio arts. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Dallas.More information about a doctorate in fine & studio arts from Southern Methodist University

2

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

6 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat The University of Texas at Austin if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in fine & studio arts. UT Austin is a fairly large public university located in the city of Austin.More information about a doctorate in fine & studio arts from The University of Texas at Austin

Best Fine & Studio Arts Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Fine & Studio Arts Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Oklahoma	92	1
New Mexico	59	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Fine Arts

Fine & Studio Arts is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Fine Arts Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Art History	8

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Music	124
General Visual & Performing Arts	21
Dance	1
Drama & Theater Arts	1

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan. More about our data sources and methodologies.