Painting / Drawing

Ranked in 2012, part of Fine Arts

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 schools for painting / drawing.

Rank	School name
#1	Yale University New Haven, CT
#2	Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
#3	School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
#4	Columbia University New York, NY
#5	Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD
#6	University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
#7	CUNY–Hunter College New York, NY
#7	Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA
#9	California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
#10	Temple University Philadelphia, PA
#11	Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI
#11	School of Visual Arts New York, NY
#13	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ
#14	Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
#15	California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA
#16	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA
#16	University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX
#18	Indiana University–Bloomington (Hope) Bloomington, IN
#19	San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA
#20	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
#20	Tufts University - School of the Museum of Fine Arts–Boston Boston, MA
#22	Boston University Boston, MA
#22	University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI

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