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Art Schools in Louisville

By mayavfx on Thursday, May 5, 2011 with

Art Schools in Louisville

Louisville, KY (population: 556,482) has three art schools within its city limits. University of Louisville, the highest ranked school in the city with an art program, has a total student population of 21,016. It is the 1677th highest ranked school in the USA and the 14th highest in the state of Kentucky (#1 is Centre College). To learn more about art programs in Louisville, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of art professors at University of Louisville such as Neil Callander, Mary Carothers, Nicholas Croghan, Brent Dedas, Leslie Friesen, and Lida Gordon.

Art students from Louisville 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.

Louisville lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 55 counties in Kentucky. Overall, the Louisville-Jefferson County-IN area has 593,940 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $19.22/hr average worker wage, and a $39,970 average annual salary.

Of the 3 art schools in Louisville, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Spalding University comes out as the most expensive ($22,380/yr) for art students, with University of Louisville as the lowest, reported at only $10,764/yr.