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Art Schools in Kansas City

By mayavfx on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 with

Art Schools in Kansas City

Kansas City, MO (population: 454,520) has four art schools within its city limits. University of Missouri-Kansas City, the highest ranked school in the city with an art program, has a total student population of 14,799. It is the 2423rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 77th highest in the state of Missouri (#1 is Webster University).

Art students from Kansas City schools who go on to become artists, animators, animation designers, animation artists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 8,900 people working as fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $50,630. Also, Craft artists make on average $33,070 per year and there are about 5,380 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Kansas City-KS area alone, there are ** employed craft artists earning an average salary of $29,980. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this area earn $*/yr and there are 30 employed.

Kansas City lies in Jackson county, which is one of the 39 counties in Missouri. Overall, the Kansas City-KS area has 988,100 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $20.79/hr average worker wage, and a $43,240 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.031 out of every 1000 jobs in Kansas City are held by fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators, and **/1000 are held by craft artists.

Of the 4 art schools in Kansas City, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Kansas City Art Institute comes out as the most expensive ($23,883/yr) for art students, with Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley as the lowest, reported at only $3,266/yr.