Where can your student actually get into a studio art program?

• 961 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's studio art program: 949 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 12 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (579), California State University-Long Beach (455), California State University-Fullerton (427).
• 61 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): University of California-Los Angeles — Art, Fall 2025: 1,404 applied, 46 admitted (3%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Fresno — 97.1% (278 applied, 270 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: University of Southern California, $72,428.
• Lowest average net price with aid: CUNY Hunter College, $2,984 per year.

A college with no first-year row is not reporting art separately, so there is no admit rate for the major to read and the campus decision is the one that applies. At a UC the row shows what happened to students who named art on the application rather than a decision made by the art department. Where a program does report its own rate, that rate runs from 3% at UCLA to 97.1% at Cal State Fresno, so the size of the gate depends on the school far more than on the major. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (61 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.