Art Education at University of Illinois at Chicago

What traits are you looking for in a art education school? To help you decide if University of Illinois at Chicago is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's art education program.

UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 33,518 students attend the school each year. Of the 130 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021, 8 of them were art education majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Art Education section at the bottom of this page.

UIC Art Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education

UIC Art Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the art education progam at UIC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The art education major at UIC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Art Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	9
	11
Best Art Education Schools	20
Best Art Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	21
Best Value Art Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	71
Best Value Art Education Schools	91
Most Focused Art Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	160

Art Education Student Demographics at UIC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the art education majors at University of Illinois at Chicago.

UIC Art Education Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 students earned a bachelor's degree in art education from UIC. About 38% of these graduates were women and the other 63% were men. The typical art education bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at UIC since its program graduates 49% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 54% more racial-ethnic minorities in its art education bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor's in art education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UIC also has a doctoral program available in art education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• French Language Teacher Education
• German Language Teacher Education
• Spanish Education
• Mathematics Education
• Reading Teacher Education

Careers That Art Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in art education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Chicago.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
High School Teachers	43,720	$72,370
Middle School Teachers	22,320	$63,860
Education Professors	4,510	$62,280
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	3,940	$68,360

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Hied5 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.