Best Graduate Fine Arts Schools Programs in US 2017

Ranked in 2016 by US News

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More US Graduate School Rankings

* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank School name Score
#1

Yale University

(New Haven, CT)

4.6
#2

University of California—​Los Angeles

(Los Angeles, CA)

4.4
#2

Virginia Commonwealth University

(Richmond, VA)

4.4
#4

Rhode Island School of Design

(Providence, RI)

4.3
#4

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

(Chicago, IL)

4.3
#6

Carnegie Mellon University

(Pittsburgh, PA)

4.2
#6

Columbia University

(New York, NY)

4.2
#6

Cranbrook Academy of Art

(Bloomfield Hills, MI)

4.2
#9

Alfred University—​New York State College of Ceramics

(Alfred, NY)

4.1
#9

California Institute of the Arts

(Valencia, CA)

4.1
#9

Maryland Institute College of Art

(Baltimore, MD)

4.1
#12

Washington University in St. Louis

(Saint Louis, MO)

4.0
#13

Bard College

(Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)

3.9
#13

University of California—​San Diego

(La Jolla, CA)

3.9
#15

California College of the Arts

(San Francisco, CA)

3.8
#15

Pratt Institute

(Brooklyn, NY)

3.8
#15

Stanford University

(Stanford, CA)

3.8
#15

Temple University

(Philadelphia, PA)

3.8
#15

University of Wisconsin—​Madison

(Madison, WI)

3.8
#20

Arizona State University

(Tempe, AZ)

3.7
#20

Art Center College of Design

(Pasadena, CA)

3.7
#20

CUNY—​Hunter College

(New York, NY)

3.7
#20

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—​New Brunswick

(New Brunswick, NJ)

3.7
#20

School of Visual Arts

(New York, NY)

3.7
#20

University of Michigan

(Ann Arbor, MI)

3.7
#20

University of Washington

(Seattle, WA)

3.7
#27

Cornell University

(Ithaca, NY)

3.6
#27

New School—​Parsons School of Design

(New York, NY)

3.6
#27

Purchase College—​SUNY

(Purchase, NY)

3.6
#27

University of California—​Berkeley

(Berkeley, CA)

3.6
#27

University of California—​Davis

(Davis, CA)

3.6
#27

University of Texas—​Austin

(Austin, TX)

3.6
#33

Indiana University—​Bloomington (Hope)

(Bloomington, IN)

3.5
#33

Ohio State University

(Columbus, OH)

3.5
#33

Ohio University

(Athens, OH)

3.5
#33

Otis College of Art and Design

(Los Angeles, CA)

3.5
#33

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

(Troy, NY)

3.5
#33

Rochester Institute of Technology

(Rochester, NY)

3.5
#33

San Francisco Art Institute

(San Francisco, CA)

3.5
#33

Syracuse University

(Syracuse, NY)

3.5
#33

University of California—​Irvine

(Irvine, CA)

3.5
#33

University of Chicago

(Chicago, IL)

3.5
#33

University of Illinois—​Chicago

(Chicago, IL)

3.5
#33

University of Illinois—​Urbana-​Champaign

(Champaign, IL)

3.5
#33

University of Iowa

(Iowa City, IA)

3.5
#33

University of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia, PA)

3.5
#33

University of Tennessee—​Knoxville

(Knoxville, TN)

3.5
#48

College for Creative Studies

(Detroit, MI)

3.4
#48

Massachusetts College of Art

(Boston, MA)

3.4
#48

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

(Minneapolis, MN)

3.4
#48

New York University

(New York, NY)

3.4
#48

Northwestern University

(Evanston, IL)

3.4
#48

University of Georgia

(Athens, GA)

3.4
#48

University of New Mexico

(Albuquerque, NM)

3.4
#55

California State University—​Los Angeles

(Los Angeles, CA)

3.3
#55

University of Arizona

(Tucson, AZ)

3.3
#55

University of Cincinnati

(Cincinnati, OH)

3.3
#55

University of Minnesota—​Twin Cities

(Minneapolis, MN)

3.3
#59

Boston University

(Boston, MA)

3.2
#59

Claremont Graduate University

(Claremont, CA)

3.2
#59

CUNY—​City College

(New York, NY)

3.2
#59

Herron School of Art & Design

(Indianapolis, IN)

3.2
#59

San Diego State University

(San Diego, CA)

3.2
#59

Tufts University -​ School of the Museum of Fine Arts—​Boston

(Boston, MA)

3.2
#59

University of California—​Santa Barbara

(Santa Barbara, CA)

3.2
#59

University of Colorado—​Boulder

(Boulder, CO)

3.2
#59

University of North Texas

(Denton, TX)

3.2
#59

University of Wisconsin—​Milwaukee

(Milwaukee, WI)

3.2
#69

California State University—​Long Beach

(Long Beach, CA)

3.1
#69

Cleveland Institute of Art

(Cleveland, OH)

3.1
#69

Florida State University

(Tallahassee, FL)

3.1
#69

Louisiana State University

(Baton Rouge, LA)

3.1
#69

Maine Media College and the Maine Photographic Workshops

(Rockport, ME)

3.1
#69

Mills College

(Oakland, CA)

3.1
#69

Pacific Northwest College of Art

(Portland, OR)

3.1
#69

Pennsylvania State University—​University Park

(University Park, PA)

3.1
#69

University at Buffalo—​SUNY

(Buffalo, NY)

3.1
#69

University of Kansas

(Lawrence, KS)

3.1
#69

University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill

(Chapel Hill, NC)

3.1
#69

University of Southern California

(Los Angeles, CA)

3.1
#69

University of the Arts

(Philadelphia, PA)

3.1
#82

Columbia College

(Chicago, IL)

3.0
#82

Columbus College of Art and Design

(Columbus, OH)

3.0
#82

CUNY—​Brooklyn College

(Brooklyn, NY)

3.0
#82

George Washington University

(Washington, DC)

3.0
#82

Maine College of Art

(Portland, ME)

3.0
#82

Michigan State University

(East Lansing, MI)

3.0
#82

SUNY—​New Paltz

(New Paltz, NY)

3.0
#82

University of California—​Santa Cruz

(Santa Cruz, CA)

3.0
#82

University of Florida

(Gainesville, FL)

3.0
#82

University of Houston

(Houston, TX)

3.0
#82

University of Maryland—​Baltimore County

(Baltimore, MD)

3.0
#82

University of Maryland—​College Park

(College Park, MD)

3.0
#82

University of Massachusetts—​Amherst

(Amherst, MA)

3.0
#82

University of Massachusetts—​Dartmouth

(North Dartmouth, MA)

3.0
#82

University of Nebraska—​Lincoln

(Lincoln, NE)

3.0
#82

University of Oregon

(Eugene, OR)

3.0
#98

Portland State University

(Portland, OR)

2.9
#98

Southern Illinois University—​Carbondale

(Carbondale, IL)

2.9
#98

Stony Brook University—​SUNY

(Stony Brook, NY)

2.9

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