Top Schools in Photography Top Photography Schools in the U.S. Ranking School Name Location 1 Yale University New Haven, CT 2 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL 3 Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 4 Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 5 University of New Mexico Albuquerque , NM 6 California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA 7 San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA 8 School of Visual Arts New York, NY 9 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 10 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 11 California College of the Arts San Francisco, CA 12 Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI 13 Columbia College Chicago, IL 14 Columbia University New York, NY 15 Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 16 Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD 17 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 18 Temple University Elkins Park, PA 19 University of Georgia Athens, GA Next: Top Printmaking Schools
