Good news &#8211; you can study art without ending up as a starving artist. Just pay careful attention to Payscale&#8217;s ranking of art colleges by graduate earnings for alumni who received their bachelor&#8217;s degrees at the art and design schools listed here.
Art school has a bad reputation for leaving heavily indebted grads with low-paying jobs, but some art and design school alumni fare pretty well in terms of post-grad salaries.
But following your muse doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate to a meaningful career. Some art and design majors have a low sense of job meaning; for some schools, less than a quarter of their graduates say that their jobs make the world a better place.

Researching art schools? Payscale's College Salary Report ranks art schools by alumni salaries so you can ensure that you'll have a successful career.

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