2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Painting

PAINTING DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

College students majoring in painting are pretty unique. Each subject grants close to 6,156 yearly undergraduate degrees; 568 students last spring were awarded an undergrad degree in painting, making it the United States' 267th most popular major for undergraduates. 44 of those degrees were conferred by one college, Virginia Commonwealth University. 78 of those degrees were earned at schools in New York.

Undergraduate degrees in painting are offered at 76 colleges in the country; ipso facto, determining the right college for you is probably difficult. There are 2.5 offering the typical major per every offering an undergrad degree in painting, making it the 213th most commonly available US degree.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 81% of last spring's degrees in painting were bachelor's degrees; 19% were postgrad degrees. Painting is the 284th most popular grad degree in the country, with 136 degrees conferred. For context, painting is 95% less popular among postgrad students than the average subject.

In Total, 704 students received a bachelor's or higher in painting last year.

ONLINE PAINTING DEGREES

4 of those 704 students (0.6%) went through exclusively remote programs - 0 undergrads and 4 postgrad students. It's the 276th most popular online postgrad degree, and 99.4% under the national average (616).

PARTIALLY ONLINE PAINTING DEGREES

• Painting is the 312th most in-demand partially online college degree in the nation
• Partially online undergrad degrees in painting are available at 59 schools in the United States
• Last May, 68 people were conferred a bachelor's or higher in painting partially online
• Last year, 136 students were awarded partially online postgrad degrees in painting
• The average partially online major confers 1,683 annual bachelor's degrees or higher

IN-PERSON PAINTING DEGREES

• Painting is the 252nd most pursued in-person undergraduate degree in America
• 17 institutions across the country have undergraduate degrees in painting in-person
• 89.26% of all four-year degree in painting are earned comprehensively in-person
• 28.02% of San Francisco Art Institute's​ last undergraduate class majored in painting in-person, higher than any other school in the nation
• Painting is the 270th most popular in-person grad degree in the USA
• On average, each field had about 4,293 in-person four-year degrees last May