LACs with good art??

circuitrider
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:49:27 +0000

@Mastadon - That NCES/IPEDS site is interesting and I can see its uses as an excellent resource. But, it does seem to slice and dice the course offerings in arbitrary ways, and can give skewed results for an individual school. For example, it does not list any Art History majors for Williams, yet we know that it’s one of the most popular art subcategories offered at that college of 2000 students in western Massachusetts.

OTOH, for some reason, the Wesleyan art history majors are bracketed out separately from the “art, general” category. If you combine the two (as they’ve apparently done for Williams) the total comes out to 25, making them 3.0% of the graduating class and the second most popular art subcategory after film. The 95 total visual and performing arts majors among the 733 seniors at Wesleyan (it’s been higher) compares to 42 graduating arts majors at Williams College.