<p>The way you get hired in this field is to study with faculty/departments that trained the present curators. That pretty well means Williams and some Ivies. Having a strong art history program per se is not as important as being able to do independent study with a faculty person who is a key figure in the field of art you wish to study. That moves a place with very strong independent study like Princeton way up over what you would otherwise glean from the catalog.</p>