Best Art History Colleges

Some of the top colleges in the country also have the beat Art History programs. Graduates can go on to a wide variety of jobs, such as working in museums, art galleries, historical societies, publishing firms, libraries and teaching. Many of these colleges also offer graduate programs that can lead to administrative jobs in museums or to professorships at major colleges or universities.

Barnard College offers a 4-year Bachelor of Art degree in Art History. The courses include Nineteenth Century Art, History and Theory of the Avant Garde, Cubism and the Crisis of Representation, American Colonial Portraiture and Contemporary Video and Film in Asia.

University of Maryland, College Park, offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in Art History. The undergraduate program includes courses like Art of the Western World to 1300, Art and Archaeology of Ancient America, History of American Art to 1876 and Art of Japan.

The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, offers both undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in Art History. Undergraduate courses include Foundations of Western Art, Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern, Arts of Asia: Antiquity to 1300, Introduction to Asian Art, Greek Art and Archaeology, and Roman Art and Archaeology

Boston University an undergraduate program as well as graduate programs in Art History. Graduate programs lead to an MA in Art History, MA in Asian History and a Ph.D. in Art History. Undergraduate courses include Survey of Western Art, Arts of Africa, Islamic Art and Architecture, and Art and Architecture in Ancient America.

Princeton University has both undergraduate and graduate programs in Art History. Undergraduate courses include Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to Contemporary, Greek Art: Ideal Realism, Roman Art, Medieval Art in Europe, Contemporary Art: 1950 to the Present, Defining Moments in American Culture , Forms, Spaces and Vision in the Late Middle Ages, and The Art and Politics of Ancient Maya Courts.