Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry degree recipients are Richmond, VA, Detroit, MI, and Morganton, NC. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry degree recipients are Morganton, NC, Nelsonville, OH, and Hazard, KY. The most common degree awarded to students studying Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry and the types of students that study this field. Virginia Commonwealth University (234030) awards the most degrees in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry in the US, but Pacific Northwest College of Art and College for Creative Studies have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry.
Tuition costs for Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry majors are, on average, $7,296 for in-state public colleges, and $42,050 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (11 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (30 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry, is Public, 4-year or above (30 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Virginia Commonwealth University (234030) has the most Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry degree recipients, with 20 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry.
Out of all institutions that offer Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Pacific Northwest College of Art has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry, with 3.6%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Visual & Performing Arts graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Visual & Performing Arts majors is $70,742 and the most common occupations are Graphic designers, Elementary & middle school teachers, and Other managers.
The industry that employs the most Visual & Performing Arts majors is Elementary & secondary schools, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Internet publishing, broadcasting & web search portals.
The average salary for Visual & Performing Arts majors is $70,742 and the most common occupations are Graphic designers, Elementary & middle school teachers, and Other managers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Visual & Performing Arts majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Visual & Performing Arts majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Visual & Performing Arts majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Visual & Performing Arts majors, by number of employees, are Graphic designers, Elementary & middle school teachers, and Other managers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Visual & Performing Arts majors working as Graphic designers, Commercial and industrial designers, and Interior designers.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Visual & Performing Arts majors are Physicians, Surgeons, and Magnetic resonance imaging technologists.
The number of Visual & Performing Arts graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.24%, from 2.2M in 2021 to 2.28M in 2022.
The largest single share of Visual & Performing Arts graduates go on to work as Graphic designers (4.71%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Visual & Performing Arts by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Visual & Performing Arts majors, by number of employees, are Elementary & secondary schools, Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges, and Specialized design services.
The highest paying industries of Visual & Performing Arts majors, by average wage, are Internet publishing, broadcasting & web search portals, Computer & peripheral equipment manufacturing, and Petroleum refining.
The number of Visual & Performing Arts graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.24%, from 2.2M in 2021 to 2.28M in 2022.
The industry which employs the most Visual & Performing Arts graduates by share is Elementary & secondary schools, followed by Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Visual & Performing Arts.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Visual & Performing Arts majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Visual & Performing Arts majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Visual & Performing Arts in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Visual & Performing Arts is 41.2.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Visual & Performing Arts degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Visual & Performing Arts (49 students).
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Visual & Performing Arts. The most common ages of employees with this major are 30 and 29 years old, which represent 3.4% and 3.31% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry are Bachelors Degree, Associates Degree, and Masters Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Visual & Performing Arts are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Korea that hold Visual & Performing Arts degrees (4.63 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Korea (27,165 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry majors need more than the average amount of Installation, Repairing, and Management of Material Resources.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Craft Design, Folk Art, & Artisanry majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Installation is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Instructing, and Reading Comprehension are the three most important skills for people in the field.
