Painting / Drawing Fine Arts

Ranked in 2008

Mastering the 2-D space is central to a graduate degree in painting and drawing. Graduate students complete work in classrooms and in individual studios. These are the best fine arts school for painting / drawing.

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#1 Yale University

New Haven, CT

#2 School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

#3 Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI

#4 Maryland Institute College of Art

Baltimore, MD

#5 Columbia University

New York, NY

#5 University of California--Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

#7 Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

#8 Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

#9 Indiana University--Bloomington (Hope)

Bloomington, IN

#10 Cranbrook Academy of Art

Bloomfield Hills, MI

#11 CUNY--Hunter College

New York, NY

#12 California Institute of the Arts

Valencia, CA

#13 School of Visual Arts

New York, NY

#14 Boston University

Boston, MA

#14 California College of the Arts

San Francisco, CA

#14 San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco, CA

#14 University of Georgia

Athens, GA

#14 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

#19 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ

#19 University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

#19 Washington University in St. Louis

Saint Louis, MO

#22 New York Studio School

New York , NY

#22 Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts--Boston

Boston, MA

#22 University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

#22 University of Texas--Austin

Austin, TX

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