Fine Studio Arts General

A program that prepares individuals to generally function as creative artists in the visual and plastic media. Includes instruction in the traditional fine arts media (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, CAD/CAM) and/or modern media (ceramics, textiles, intermedia, photography, digital images), theory of art, color theory, composition and perspective, anatomy, the techniques and procedures for maintaining equipment and managing a studio, and art portfolio marketing.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 633 institutions across the United States, with a total of 34407 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

121

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

768

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

9,349

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

1,177

degrees awarded

Other Awards

22,970

awards given

Top Schools for Fine Studio Arts General

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL	2,196
2	California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA	933
3	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	732
4	San Jose State University San Jose, CA	507
5	University of North Texas Denton, TX	384
6	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	360
7	Bard College Annandale-On-Hudson, NY	342
8	CUNY City College New York, NY	339
9	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	309
10	Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO	306
11	The New School New York, NY	303
12	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	303
13	Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN	300
14	Fashion Institute of Technology New York, NY	294
15	CUNY Hunter College New York, NY	288
16	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	284
17	School of Visual Arts New York, NY	279
18	California State University-East Bay Hayward, CA	276
19	East Carolina University Greenville, NC	267
20	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	263
21	The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX	255
22	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	249
23	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Denver, CO	246
24	Pennsylvania Western University California, PA	245
25	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	243
26	University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC	228
27	Towson University Towson, MD	222
28	New York University New York, NY	216
29	Connecticut State Community College Hartford, CT	205
30	University of North Georgia Dahlonega, GA	204
31	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, TX	201
32	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	195
33	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	192
34	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	189
35	University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL	189
36	Alfred University Alfred, NY	183
37	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	180
38	Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI	177
39	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA	174
40	Pratt Institute-Main Brooklyn, NY	174
41	Kent State University at Kent Kent, OH	174
42	University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, NE	174
43	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	171
44	Texas State University San Marcos, TX	168
45	CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY	168
46	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN	162
47	University of Louisville Louisville, KY	162
48	University of Houston-Clear Lake Houston, TX	159
49	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	156
50	Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Milwaukee, WI	156
51	CUNY Queens College Queens, NY	156
52	Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL	150
53	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	150
54	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	147
55	Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA	147
56	CUNY LaGuardia Community College Long Island City, NY	141
57	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York, NY	138
58	Bridgewater State University Bridgewater, MA	138
59	Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY	135
60	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	135
61	University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC	129
62	Fort Hays State University Hays, KS	129
63	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	129
64	University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO	129
65	University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC	129
66	California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA	126
67	Northern Kentucky University Highland Heights, KY	126
68	University of West Florida Pensacola, FL	123
69	Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA	123
70	Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Bowling Green, OH	120
71	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	117
72	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	111
73	Portland State University Portland, OR	111
74	College of Charleston Charleston, SC	111
75	Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC	111
76	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	111
77	Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA	111
78	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	111
79	Florida International University Miami, FL	108
80	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	108
81	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	108
82	Columbia College Chicago Chicago, IL	108
83	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA	105
84	Wesleyan University Middletown, CT	102
85	Kansas State University Manhattan, KS	102
86	University of Missouri-St Louis Saint Louis, MO	99
87	Lesley University Cambridge, MA	99
88	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE	99
89	Hudson County Community College Jersey City, NJ	96
90	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	96
91	University of Delaware Newark, DE	96
92	Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, CT	96
93	The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL	93
94	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	90
95	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	87
96	California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA	87
97	University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore, MD	87
98	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI	87
99	University of Central Florida Orlando, FL	87
100	Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Carbondale, IL	87