Highest Earning Doctoral Visual & Performing Arts Programs

These are the highest earning doctoral visual & performing arts programs, ranked by median earnings. The ranking includes 29 programs, with University of Michigan-Ann Arbor leading at $75,367.

Rank	Institution	State	Earnings	Completers
1	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	$75,367	25
2	The University of Texas at Austin	TX	$75,055	35
3	University of California-San Diego	CA	$68,693	5
4	University of Maryland-College Park	MD	$68,660	24
5	Northwestern University	IL	$66,572	22
6	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	$65,495	17
7	Michigan State University	MI	$64,672	51
8	University of North Texas	TX	$64,315	54
9	Boston University	MA	$60,156	25
10	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	$60,133	16
11	Florida State University	FL	$60,076	38
12	Stony Brook University	NY	$59,933	29
13	University of Southern California	CA	$59,885	29
14	CUNY Graduate School and University Center	NY	$59,802	20
15	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	IL	$58,016	37
16	Ohio State University-Main Campus	OH	$57,576	12
17	Texas Tech University	TX	$57,408	19
18	University of Georgia	GA	$56,716	26
19	University of Colorado Boulder	CO	$56,459	21
20	University of Missouri-Kansas City	MO	$54,810	21
21	Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	$53,477	40
22	University of Kansas	KS	$52,762	26
23	University of Rochester	NY	$52,257	33
24	University of Kentucky	KY	$49,845	16
25	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	AZ	$48,038	35
26	University of Iowa	IA	$47,407	15
27	University of Arizona	AZ	$47,280	9
28	University of South Carolina-Columbia	SC	$46,203	17
29	University of Miami	FL	$45,553	35

Methodology

Programs ranked by highest earning. Only includes doctoral programs in CIP family 50 (Visual & Performing Arts) with at least 10 completers. Data from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.