Painting at Rhode Island School of Design

If you are interested in studying painting, you may want to check out the program at Rhode Island School of Design. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

RISD is located in Providence, Rhode Island and approximately 2,227 students attend the school each year.

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

RISD Painting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Painting
• Master’s Degree in Painting

RISD Painting Rankings

The painting major at RISD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Painting. 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.

Painting Student Demographics at RISD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the painting majors at Rhode Island School of Design.

RISD Painting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 28% of painting bachelor's degrees went to men and 72% went to women. The typical painting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% men. So male students are more repesented at RISD since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% more racial-ethnic minorities in its painting bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a bachelor's in painting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	23
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

RISD Painting Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 60% of painting master's degrees went to men and 40% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 25% men graduate in painting each year. RISD does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 35% more men than average.

In the painting master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 18% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a master's in painting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	2
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Other Fine Arts & Art Studies
• Ceramic Arts & Ceramics
• Jewelry Arts
• Printmaking
• Sculpture

Careers That Painting Grads May Go Into

A degree in painting can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for RI, the home state for Rhode Island School of Design.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	710	$83,080

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 DanielPenfield under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.