Best Graduate Painting / Drawing Programs in US 2015

Ranked by US News

More US Graduate School Rankings

* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank School name
#1 Yale University

(New Haven, CT, US)

#2 Rhode Island School of Design

(Providence, RI, US)

#3 School of the Art Institute of Chicago

(Chicago, IL, US)

#4 Columbia University

(New York, NY, US)

#5 Maryland Institute College of Art

(Baltimore, MD, US)

#6 University of California—​Los Angeles

(Los Angeles, CA, US)

#7 CUNY—​Hunter College

(New York, NY, US)

#7 Virginia Commonwealth University

(Richmond, VA, US)

#9 California Institute of the Arts

(Valencia, CA, US)

#10 Temple University

(Philadelphia, PA, US)

#11 Cranbrook Academy of Art

(Bloomfield Hills, MI, US)

#11 School of Visual Arts

(New York, NY, US)

#13 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—​New Brunswick

(New Brunswick, NJ, US)

#14 Bard College

(Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, US)

#15 California College of the Arts

(San Francisco, CA, US)

#16 University of Iowa

(Iowa City, IA, US)

#16 University of Texas—​Austin

(Austin, TX, US)

#18 Indiana University—​Bloomington (Hope)

(Bloomington, IN, US)

#19 San Francisco Art Institute

(San Francisco, CA, US)

#20 Carnegie Mellon University

(Pittsburgh, PA, US)

#20 Tufts University -​ School of the Museum of Fine Arts—​Boston

(Boston, MA, US)

#22 Boston University

(Boston, MA, US)

#22 University of Wisconsin—​Madison

(Madison, WI, US)

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