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The "Will Paint for Food" Brigade

Fine & Studio Arts

The Ivory Towers of Paint

The absolute elite. You are practically guaranteed gallery space if you survive the critiques.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Yale
New Haven, CT
New Haven, CT 14 4% 43% / 57% 7% $31,040 1 94% —
2 Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
Providence, RI 178 19% 31% / 69% 24% $56,842 32 88% —
3 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 696 76% 29% / 71% 30% $36,916 2 82% —
4 California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
Valencia, CA 23 32% 35% / 65% 22% $28,045 1 87% —
5 Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD 139 77% 15% / 85% 20% $46,093 12 91% —
6 Columbia
New York, NY
New York, NY — 4% — — — — — —

Gallery Darlings

Highly respected incubators for the next generation of modern art stars.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY 88 73% 22% / 78% 24% $31,663 3 93% —
2 Virginia Commonwealth
Richmond, VA
Richmond, VA 239 72% 12% / 88% 1% $45,472 20 88% —
3 CUNY Hunter
New York, NY
New York, NY 55 28% 22% / 78% 7% $43,650 40 87% —
4 UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 47 9% 32% / 68% 4% $46,122 11 90% —

Urban Creative Hubs

Gritty, city-integrated programs where the networking is as intense as the curriculum.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Cooper Union
New York, NY
New York, NY 73 12% 40% / 60% 5% $26,581 1 82% —
2 California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA 67 91% 24% / 76% 21% $49,171 25 86% —
3 The New School
New York, NY
New York, NY 207 63% 23% / 77% 29% $52,724 25 89% —

State School Studio Stars

Massive resources, huge alumni networks, and slightly less crushing debt.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX 74 22% 18% / 82% 3% $45,932 12 85% —
2 U. of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
Madison, WI 65 41% 31% / 69% 8% $40,386 6 93% —
3 Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
New Brunswick, NJ 37 68% 27% / 73% 8% $48,946 33 90% —
4 Temple
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 38 72% 18% / 82% 0% $44,110 17 91% —
5 Indiana
Bloomington, IN
Bloomington, IN 50 76% 20% / 80% 2% $43,394 9 97% —