SUMMARY
Majoring in Art Therapy is a valuable choice and usually a required first step for undergraduates seeking to begin a career as an art therapist, a recovery counselor, or a marriage counselor. In fact, art therapy is a very rare degree ranking as the 352nd most popular degree. In the last year, there were 202 art therapy diplomas received. In-state tuition for art therapy at private schools is, on average, Infinity times more pricey than their public counterparts.
With only 52 colleges offering art therapy there might be limited options as to the institutions that will have an option for you. If you're looking to surround yourself with other art therapy undergraduates, consider institutions in Massachusetts which have the most undergraduates admitted to art therapy annually. Zooming out, the top region to pursue art therapy is in the Great Lakes region with Capital University, Edgewood College, and Mount Mary University best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection for the best conference to major in art therapy is the New England Collegiate Conference with Lesley University representing the conference. That said, our choice for the best college for art therapy is Cedar Crest College, and here you can find our comprehensive list for the best colleges.
The objectively 'best' school does not have to be the best school for every student. There might be lots of facets to consider when selecting school. External stuff such as campus amenities, transportation services, and food might sway one's choice on where to go to university. At authority.org, we evaluated the pros and cons for you. If, as an example, you are interested in which art therapy university is home to the top campus, the answer is Lesley University. If, for example, you are mostly interested in which college is home to the best campus, we have an entire list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through government databases, professor reviews, student reviews, and more in order to compare each major in an unbiased and informative way. You can explore our comprehensive list for the universities with the best student life here and our selection of the university with the best student life for art therapy is Marywood University. Are you curious why? Keep scrolling to discover more about Authority's top recommendations. Many of our picks will probably shock you.
If cost is a primary deciding factor in your decisions, you might consider avoiding Emmanuel College. Emmanuel College appears to be the most expensive school for art therapy, at least for out of state students. That being said, we have a list of the most expensive universities that might put the price tag of Emmanuel College into perspective. You could also be interested to know that art therapy is the 167th most expensive degree in the US, with an average expense of $32,700. On a broader scale, the most costly state for art therapy in the nation is Pennsylvania with expenses at the main three colleges Cedar Crest College, Marywood University, and Seton Hill University of $39,774, $34,154, and $34,154 respectively. Even more broadly, the most costly region of the U.S. for art therapy is the Mid East region which is best demonstrated with Long Island University with a cost of $36,452, Cedar Crest College with a cost of $39,774, and Seton Hill University with a cost of $36,306.
Our cheapest region for art therapy is the Great Lakes region which is represented by University of Indianapolis with a cost of $29,844, Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion with a cost of $27,296, and Alverno College with a cost of $28,656. On the bright side, the most affordable school for art therapy is Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion. Our comprehensive list of the most affordable schools can be explored here.
In-state learners can anticipate paying about $0 for a degree in art therapy. That cost increases dramatically to an average of $0 for an out-of-state public-school undergrad. Our pick for the school constituting the best value for art therapy: Emmanuel College. On this page you can see our comprehensive list for the universities we believe to be the best value in general. Bear in mind, this discussion is predicated on being an out-of-state student. A discussion of value changes when it comes to in-state tuition, but as we do not know what state(s) you might qualify for in-state tuition, we are approaching this discussion through out-of-state tuition costs.
Earnings for art therapy majors can differ, but two-years after finishing the degree students will often earn in the neighborhood of $49,000. There can be much variation in earnings potential; highest paid earners can rake in up to $89,600. Right out of college, the lowest end jobs within the art therapy field make $27,100, which could be worse. The top earning graduates for art therapy studied at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion and if you want to find the universities with all of the highest earning graduates, Authority has that too.
The all-around diversity of art therapy sits subpar, falling within only the 9th percentile of majors nationally. The school with the highest composite diversity for art therapy is Long Island University and here you can find our general list for the schools which have the most diversity. The overall financial diversity of Art Therapy only sits in the 76th percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is even lower in the 20th percentile. White undergraduates make up the largest proportion at 75% of students majoring in art therapy. Additionally, 95% of undergraduates pursuing an art therapy degree are women.
We have insufficient professors data for art therapy to make the conclusions we normally would have made in this sentence. As we incorporate data beyond simply rankings it becomes clear that the school possessing the overall best professors for art therapy is Long Island University. One can find more detail on our evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, along with many of the finest examples of instructors in the U.S.
Finally, the most difficult college to get into for art therapy is Mount Mary University. While we are unsure why you would be interested, we do have a general page of the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, we hope you understand that looking at university from context mainly derived from superlatives could be said to be the root of many of higher education's fundamental problems. We at Authority hope you explore our other pages on different schools and peruse a couple of our background pages on beneficial things to consider as you continue your school search.