2024 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Jersey
3Colleges in New Jersey
158Visual Arts Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in visual & performing arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #221 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Jersey ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 158 degrees in visual & performing arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The visual arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts rankings. For our Best Overall Visual & Performing 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.
The visual arts 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 Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New Jersey.
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Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts in New Jersey
The schools below may not offer all types of visual arts degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student who is interested in visual & performing arts needs to take a look at Stockton University. Stockton State is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Galloway. A Best Colleges rank of #628 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Stockton State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 29 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Stockton State in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in visual & performing arts needs to take a look at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Ramapo College is a moderately-sized public college located in the large suburb of Mahwah. This college ranks 20th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 12 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Ramapo College in the most recent data year.
Bloomfield College is a good option for students interested in a degree in visual & performing arts. Bloomfield College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Bloomfield. This college ranks 42nd out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 51 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Bloomfield College 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).