Bachelor in Fine/Studio Arts (Bachelor's)

Tuition costs 63,216 USD per year.

Graduates are qualified to pursue careers in art, media, education, and nonprofit sectors. The programme emphasizes hands-on studio practice across multiple disciplines including ceramics, digital art, painting, photography, and sculpture. Students engage in critical theory courses and develop visual literacy through research and creative projects. The curriculum supports interdisciplinary exploration and culminates in a senior project and seminar.

Focus areas include book arts, ceramics, digital art, drawing, painting, photography.

The major requires 10 upper-division art and art history courses. Students complete a senior project and seminar in their final year, with honors candidates continuing into a second semester.

Graduates enter careers in visual arts, media production, art education, and nonprofit arts organizations.

First-year students may begin with introductory studio courses, theory courses such as ART 181, or art history courses. Students with advanced backgrounds may petition to take higher-level courses by submitting a portfolio.

On-campus, full-time, typically four years. For international students, tuition is well above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 34% of applicants.

Scripps College is a women’s liberal arts college in Claremont, California, where students learn in a supportive community that elevates their voices and perspectives. The College is approaching its centennial in 2026-2027, marking its first 100 years. Its location at the heart of The Claremont Colleges gives students a close campus community alongside the resources and connections of a larger institution.

Academic work at Scripps centers on a rigorous liberal arts education that cultivates courage, creativity, and confidence. The College offers more than 60 academic majors, with average classes of 15 students. Students can also access more than 2,000 courses through the consortium, along with joint academic programs and cross-registration across its member institutions. At Scripps, 85 percent of students hold at least one internship, and the student-faculty ratio is 11:1.

The Claremont Colleges consist of five independent undergraduate institutions and two graduate institutions, each with its own student body, faculty, campus, mission, and identity. Students at Scripps can use shared resources that include a two-million-volume library, student bookstore, health and counseling services, chaplains’ offices, and recreational facilities. The College’s greater Los Angeles setting places students about 35 miles from Los Angeles while keeping daily life anchored in the Claremont campuses and their academic community.