Fine & Studio Arts is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #22 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Montana to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of fine & studio arts. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 77 bachelor's degrees in fine & studio arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor'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 - The number of fine & studio arts students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Montana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Featured Fine & Studio Arts Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Montana State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. Located in the remote town of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public university with a large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the fine & studio arts degree program at Montana State University earn $4,558 above the average college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
The University of Montana is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in fine & studio arts. UM is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Missoula.
Soon after graduation, fine arts bachelor's recipients usually make around $18,130 in their early careers.
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).