I see this is an old thread and the OP may be long gone, but I can’t help rehashing an earlier post that’s apropos:
One widget you might have fun playing around with is the Dept. of Ed’s college navigator site: http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
If you enter the name of a college, click on the resulting college link and then go to “Programs/Majors”, you can get a sense of how much art stuff is happening at a given school by scrolling down to the “Visual and Performing Arts” section. I find it interesting to look at the total number of majors in visual and performing arts relative to the number of majors in all disciplines. I’ve done this for a bunch of LAC’s, and have arrived at the following rough framework:
Under 3% = probably a real jock school, or at least a minimally artsy one; 3-6% = not particularly artsy; 6-10% = pretty artsy; Over 10% = seriously artsy. That’s all just based on feel and playing around, so take it for what it’s worth. In the northeast, Vassar, Wesleyan, Bard and Skidmore score very high.
The other nice thing about that site is it has the arts broken down by sub-discipline, so if you’re particularly interested in fine/studio arts, for instance, you can see how many folks majored in that.
For the schools in question:
Bates 6.3%
Bowdoin 4.9%
Colby 3.1%
Just in the Northeast, compare that to:
Skidmore 17.4%
Wesleyan 12.9%
Vassar 11.7%
Conn College 10.1%