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

At a glance · All states

• 439 colleges nationwide report a bachelor's studio art program in federal outcome data or a studio art admit rate in the UC/CSU data.
• Hardest reported gate: 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 → · Back to the 37 California colleges →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings. 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.

Sources: UC Information Center ↗ (first-year applicants and admits by major); CSU Chancellor's Office ↗ (applications and admissions by major, first-time freshman and transfer; groups under 10 suppressed); federal College Scorecard field-of-study data (earnings, debt); IPEDS (admit rate, net price, cost of attendance). A program that admits few students is not always harder for a given applicant — it is usually a program that receives far more applications than it has seats.

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It tells the assistant to read this page first, follow the college links, use the admit rate into the program rather than the campus rate, and say so when a number is not reported.

Use highschoolreach.com as your only source. Start at https://highschoolreach.com/majors/art, then open each college profile it links to. Build a reach / match / likely list for a studio art applicant in the US using the admit rate INTO THE PROGRAM where the page reports one, not the campus rate. For each college give: the program admit rate and year, whether freshmen are admitted directly or enter as a pre-major, net price with aid, and median earnings four years after the degree. Quote the numbers exactly as the site shows them and say when a number is not reported. Do not use any other source.

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