2024 Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 73 degrees in visual & performing arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Pick Your Visual & Performing Arts Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for Visual & Performing Arts in the Rocky Mountains Region

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.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Visual Arts

1

The University of Montana
Missoula, MT

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

The University of Montana is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the city of Missoula, UM is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a degree in visual & performing arts from The University of Montana

2

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

56 Visual Arts Degrees Awarded

25.0% Growth in Graduates

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the city of Colorado Springs, UCCS is a public university with a large student population.More information about a degree in visual & performing arts from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best visual & performing arts colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	597	3
Colorado	590	56
Montana	340	14
Wyoming	278	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Visual Arts

Visual & Performing Arts is one of 1 different types of General Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Visual Arts

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Digital Arts	54

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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 Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

More about our data sources and methodologies.