Top Painting / Drawing Schools in the U.S.

Ranking Painting / Drawing Schools Location
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 City University of New York: Hunter College New York, NY
8 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
12 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
17 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX
18 Indiana University Bloomington (Hope) Bloomington, IN
19 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA
20 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
21 Tufts University – School of the Museum of Fine Arts–Boston Boston, MA
22 Boston University Boston, MA
23 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI