Fast Facts

How VCUarts Stacks Up

1928 VCUarts Founding Year
3,227 Undergraduate & Graduate Students
350 School of the Arts Faculty
17 Average Students Per Studio Class
20 Arts Buildings on the Richmond Campus
160 Average Students Per Academic Department
18 Bachelor's Degrees
5 Master's Degrees
2 Campuses: Richmond, Virginia & Doha, Qatar
#1 in Visual & Performing Arts Among U.S. Public Research Universities

National Science Foundation, 2024

Our Campus

VCUarts is housed within 20 buildings on VCU's urban Monroe Park Campus in the heart of Richmond, Virginia, including the acclaimed Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Our students enjoy close proximity to a variety of arts and cultural institutions within the city — many within walking or biking distance.

Explore Our Facilities

Shafer Street Playhouse exterior with students walking by in the foreground

About Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU is unlike any university you’ve ever seen. Our community is more than 300,000 strong — each Ram a unique mix of style, story and attitude. Here, artists and engineers, doctors and designers are coming together to reimagine the human experience and tackle the problems of tomorrow.

1838 VCU's Founding Year
28,831 Total Student Enrollment
140 Countries Represented by VCU Students
226,868 VCU Alumni
14 Schools and Colleges
200 Academic Programs

More VCU Facts & Rankings

Our Campus in Qatar

Established in 1998, VCUarts Qatar is our international school for art and design in the Middle East. Our semester exchange program puts students at the heart of creativity and innovation in Doha's "Education City," where several international educational institutions reside.

Explore VCUarts Qatar

National Rankings

VCUarts is among the top-ranked schools of arts and design in the country. That means you’ll graduate with credibility as an artist and a professional, with a degree that’s respected in the world of galleries, design and advertising firms, graduate schools, artistic directors and employers. The rankings below come from U.S. News & World Report’s evaluation of graduate school programs, published in 2021.