2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Art History

ART HISTORY DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Not many college students choose to pursue a degree in art history. On average, each major grants roughly 6,156 undergraduate degrees per annum; 2,784 people last May completed a bachelor's degree in art history, making it the nation's 119th most popular subject. The University of California-Los Angeles​ accounted for 67 of those degrees (#1 in the nation), and colleges in New York granted more degrees than any American State (368).

Finding the right institution for you may be hard, seeing as 411 schools nationwide award undergrad degrees in art history. There are 2.1 schools offering four-year degrees in art history for every institution offering the average degree, making it the 54th most widely offered subject.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last year, about five out of every seven degrees in art history were bachelor's degrees; 28% were advanced degrees. Art history is the 117th most popular grad degree in the United States of America, with 1,108 degrees conferred. For context, art history is 60% less popular among postgrads than the average subject.

In Total, 3,892 students received a bachelor's or higher in art history last year.

ONLINE ART HISTORY DEGREES

8 of those 3,892 students (0.2%) completed comprehensively online programs - 1 undergraduate and 7 master's & doctor's students. As you've presumably gleaned by now, college students majoring in art history online are quite unique. It is the 266th most in-demand remote degree, and 99.8% below the nation's average of 481 students per field. For master's or doctor's students, it ranks 253rd, and is 98.9% below the nation's average (616).

Academy of Art University​ conferred the only four-year degree in art history last year. Last fall, 2,911 undergraduate students were attending the college exclusively remotely, 43% of their student body. They offer 33 completely online majors. That's 97% of their subjects.

There are 2 schools in the US with an exclusively remote college degree in art history, making it the 54th most widely offered remote US major. Less than 1% of the colleges awarding the degree even have an entirely online option, and nearly 50% of the institutions providing the degree remotely are public.

If you want to study art history online, you should consider applying to Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, as it has the 158th best art history program in the nation. They also offer an additional 9 degrees comprehensively remotely, so their systems are probably strong. Moreover, they have 108 online undergraduates, which is 7% of the undergraduate population.

PARTIALLY ONLINE ART HISTORY DEGREES

• Art history is the 158th most pursued partially online undergrad degree in the United States of America
• 318 schools in the country have undergraduate degrees in art history partially online
• 12.79% of all college degree in art history are completed partially online
• 1.13% of Columbus College of Art and Design's​ last undergraduate class studied art history partially online, higher than any other college in the nation
• Kentucky is home to the most schools offering undergrad degrees in art history partially online (3)
• The typical major confers 320 postgraduate degrees per year partially online

IN-PERSON ART HISTORY DEGREES

• 2,427 students completed a four-year degree in art history in-person last May
• Art history is the 23rd most widely available in-person bachelor's degree across the nation
• 87.18% of all bachelor's degree in art history are earned in-person
• 10.9% of Kansas City Art Institute's​ last undergraduate class majored in art history completely in-person, higher than any other institution in the USA
• 3 of the institutions offering in-person bachelor's degrees in art history are based in the state of Iowa, the most of any state
• The average in-person major grants 6,102 yearly bachelor's degrees or higher