2024 Best Fine & Studio Arts Schools in Connecticut
8Colleges in Connecticut
415Fine Arts Degrees Awarded
$27,465Avg Early-Career Salary
Ranked #31 in popularity, fine & studio arts is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for fine & studio arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 415 degrees in fine & studio arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of fine & studio arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Fine & Studio Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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 Fine & Studio Arts Schools in Connecticut list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Fine & Studio Arts in Connecticut
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the fine arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat Yale University if you want to pursue a degree in fine & studio arts. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Yale is a great university overall.
There were approximately 68 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at Yale in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, fine arts degree recipients generally make an average of $26,661 in their early careers.
University of Connecticut is a good option for students pursuing a degree in fine & studio arts. Located in the large suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #86 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were about 46 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the fine arts program state that they receive average early career earnings of $28,740.
University of Hartford is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in fine & studio arts. UHart is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of West Hartford. This university ranks 11th out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were roughly 32 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at UHart in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the fine arts program earn about $21,001 for their early career.
Eastern Connecticut State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in fine & studio arts. ECSU is a small public university located in the fringe town of Willimantic. This university ranks 16th out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 27 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at ECSU in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the fine arts program make an average of $28,378 in their early career salary.
Sacred Heart is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Fairfield. A Best Colleges rank of #706 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Sacred Heart is a great university overall.
There were roughly 10 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at Sacred Heart in the most recent data year. Those fine & studio arts students who get their degree from Sacred Heart University make $15,052 more than the typical fine arts student.
SCSU is a moderately-sized public university located in the midsize city of New Haven. This university ranks 12th out of 28 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 23 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at SCSU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the fine arts program state that they receive average early career wages of $25,763.
Located in the city of Danbury, WestConn is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 22nd out of 28 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 36 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at WestConn in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the suburb of New Britain, CCSU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #678 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means CCSU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 11 fine & studio arts students who graduated with this degree at CCSU in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the fine arts program state that they receive average early career income of $22,417.
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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Your choice of fine & studio arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Fine & Studio Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
