2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Art Therapy

ART THERAPY DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

College students majoring in art therapy are rather unique. The typical subject grants 6,156 yearly undergrad degrees; last year, 202 students completed undergraduate degrees in art therapy, making it the US' 352nd most popular subject for college students. 34 of those students came out of Lesley University, which proudly has the largest program in the US. 47 of those degrees were earned at colleges in Massachusetts.

Singling out the right school could potentially not be easy, seeing as 52 schools nationally grant a bachelor's degree in art therapy. Bachelor's degrees in the typical concentration are offered at 3.7 times more colleges than degrees in art therapy, making it the 272nd most commonly offered U.S. degree.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 30% of last year's degrees in art therapy were undergraduate degrees; 70% were advanced degrees. Art therapy is the 182nd most popular master's or doctor's degree in the US, with 463 degrees granted. To put that in context, art therapy is 83% less popular among postgraduate students than the average subject.

In Total, 665 students received a bachelor's or higher in art therapy last spring.

ONLINE ART THERAPY DEGREES

1 of those 665 graduates (0.2%) did all their schooling totally remotely - 0 undergraduates and 1 postgrad student. It is the 305th most in-demand online grad degree, and 99.8% shy of the US average (616).

PARTIALLY ONLINE ART THERAPY DEGREES

• 38 students were awarded a bachelor's degree in art therapy partially online last spring
• Art therapy is the 247th most broadly available partially online undergraduate degree in the United States
• 18.81% of all four-year degree in art therapy are completed partially online
• Mount Mary University's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of partially online art therapy majors than any other American institution (3.12%)
• Colleges from Pennsylvania conferred the most partially online bachelor's degrees in art therapy last spring (10)
• The average partially online subject hands out 1,683 annual bachelor's degrees or higher

IN-PERSON ART THERAPY DEGREES

• 164 students last year received a bachelor's degree in art therapy comprehensively in-person
• Art therapy is the 247th most commonly offered in-person undergrad degree around the nation
• Last spring, 561 students completed a bachelor's or higher in art therapy in-person
• 5.84% of Lesley University's​ last undergraduate class studied art therapy totally in-person, higher than any other school in the nation
• Faintly north of 28.6% of in-person degrees in art therapy last May were four-year degrees; 71% were postgrad degrees
• On average, each major has around 4,293 four-year degrees per annum entirely in-person