2025 Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
473Other Visual & Performing Arts Degrees Awarded
Other Visual & Performing Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #465 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for other visual & performing arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 473 degrees in other visual & performing arts to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Other Visual & Performing Arts School
Your choice of other visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Other Visual & Performing Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Other Visual & Performing Arts Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Other Visual & Performing Arts in New York
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the other visual & performing arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New York Schools in Other Visual & Performing Arts
New York University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in other visual & performing arts. Located in the large city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 288 other visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in other visual & performing arts needs to look into Columbia University in the City of New York. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.
There were roughly 121 other visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent data year.
Bard College is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in other visual & performing arts. Bard is a small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of Annandale-On-Hudson. This college ranks 59th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 28 other visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Bard in the most recent year we have data available.
Rankings in Majors Related to Other Visual & Performing Arts
One of 0 majors within the Other Visual Art area of study, Other Visual & Performing Arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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