据USNews官方介绍，美国大学研究生最佳艺术专业院校排名主要参考以下六大因素：1、师生比;2、研究费用;3、录取比率;4、本科平均学分;5、GRE LSAT GMAT平均分;6、毕业即成功就业率。
以下为2015USNews美国大学研究生最佳艺术专业院校详细排名
| 排名 | 学校 | 得分 |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Yale University New Haven, CT | 4.5 |
| #2 | Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI | 4.4 |
| #2 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | 4.4 |
| #4 | University of California—Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | 4.3 |
| #4 | Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA | 4.3 |
| #6 | California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA | 4.2 |
| #7 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 4.1 |
| #7 | Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI | 4.1 |
| #7 | Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD | 4.1 |
| #10 | Columbia University New York, NY | 4.0 |
| #11 | Alfred University—New York State College of Ceramics Alfred, NY | 3.9 |
| #11 | California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA | 3.9 |
| #13 | Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | 3.8 |
| #13 | CUNY—Hunter College New York, NY | 3.8 |
| #13 | Temple University Philadelphia, PA | 3.8 |
| #13 | University of California—San Diego La Jolla, CA | 3.8 |
| #13 | Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis, MO | 3.8 |
| #18 | Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA | 3.7 |
| #18 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.7 |
| #18 | School of Visual Arts New York, NY | 3.7 |
| #18 | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 3.7 |
| #22 | Arizona State University Tempe, AZ | 3.6 |
| #22 | Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA | 3.6 |
| #22 | University of Georgia Athens, GA | 3.6 |
| #22 | University of Iowa Iowa City, IA | 3.6 |
| #22 | University of Texas—Austin Austin, TX | 3.6 |
| #27 | Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA | 3.5 |
| #27 | Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY | 3.5 |
| #27 | Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY | 3.5 |
| #27 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | 3.5 |
| #27 | San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA | 3.5 |
| #27 | University of California—Davis Davis, CA | 3.5 |
| #27 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | 3.5 |
| #27 | University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | 3.5 |
| #27 | University of Washington Seattle, WA | 3.5 |
| #36 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 3.4 |
| #36 | Indiana University—Bloomington (Hope) Bloomington, IN | 3.4 |
| #36 | Minneapolis College of Art and Design Minneapolis, MN | 3.4 |
| #36 | New School—Parsons School of Design New York, NY | 3.4 |
| #36 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 3.4 |
| #36 | Tufts University - School of the Museum of Fine Arts—Boston Boston, MA | 3.4 |
| #36 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ | 3.4 |
| #36 | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 3.4 |
| #36 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | 3.4 |
