2024 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Pennsylvania
4Colleges in Pennsylvania
106Visual Arts Degrees Awarded
A degree in visual & performing arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #221 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of visual & performing arts. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 degrees in visual & performing arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Visual & Performing Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
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 Pennsylvania.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts in Pennsylvania
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the visual arts degree levels they offer.
It's hard to beat University of Pennsylvania if you want to pursue a degree in visual & performing arts. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were roughly 13 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.
Temple University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in visual & performing arts. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #147 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Temple is a great university overall.
There were about 9 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available.
Harrisburg Area Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the small city of Harrisburg, HACC is a public college with a fairly large student population. This college ranks 73rd out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 16 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at HACC in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in visual & performing arts needs to look into Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus. IUP is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Indiana. This university ranks 49th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 4 visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at IUP 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).
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Your choice of visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Visual & Performing Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
