Top Fine Arts in the USA: Fine Arts

For artists, earning an M.F.A. demonstrates advanced abilities in an art specialty field, such as graphic design, painting and drawing, or visual communications. These are the top graduate schools for fine arts. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.

Rank	School name	Score
#1	Yale University  New Haven, CT	4.6
#2Tie	University of California—​Los Angeles  Los Angeles, CA	4.4
#2Tie	Virginia Commonwealth University  Richmond, VA	4.4
#4Tie	Rhode Island School of Design  Providence, RI	4.3
#4Tie	School of the Art Institute of Chicago  Chicago, IL	4.3
#6Tie	Carnegie Mellon University  Pittsburgh, PA	4.2
#6Tie	Columbia University  New York, NY	4.2
#6Tie	Cranbrook Academy of Art  Bloomfield Hills, MI	4.2
#9Tie	Alfred University—​New York State College of Ceramics  Alfred, NY	4.1
#9Tie	California Institute of the Arts  Valencia, CA	4.1
#9Tie	Maryland Institute College of Art  Baltimore, MD	4.1
#12	Washington University in St. Louis  Saint Louis, MO	4.0
#13Tie	Bard College  Annandale-on-Hudson, NY	3.9
#13Tie	University of California—​San Diego  La Jolla, CA	3.9
#15Tie	California College of the Arts  San Francisco, CA	3.8
#15Tie	Pratt Institute  Brooklyn, NY	3.8
#15Tie	Stanford University  Stanford, CA	3.8
#15Tie	Temple University  Philadelphia, PA	3.8
#15Tie	University of Wisconsin—​Madison  Madison, WI	3.8
#20Tie	Arizona State University  Tempe, AZ	3.7
#20Tie	Art Center College of Design  Pasadena, CA	3.7
#20Tie	CUNY—​Hunter College  New York, NY	3.7
#20Tie	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—​New Brunswick  New Brunswick, NJ	3.7
#20Tie	School of Visual Arts  New York, NY	3.7
#20Tie	University of Michigan  Ann Arbor, MI Source: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-fine-arts-schools/fine-arts-rankings?int=aa0a09