12. Fine Arts

The first collegiate Department of Fine Arts was established at Yale University in 1864, but only certificates were given for completion of its three-year course of study until 1891. In that year the 4year degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts was first conferred. Meanwhile a College of Fine Arts was established at Syracuse University in 1873, but it planned for separate degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Painting, Bachelor of Engraving, and Bachelor of Music.23

Below are listed the 64 degrees classified in table 10 in the field of Fine Arts as currently conferred by recognized colleges and universities; the number of institutions reporting the use of each of these degrees; and their abbreviation or abbreviations, with the institutional frequencies reported for each. Since some of the institutions did not indicate the abbreviations they use, the sum of the frequencies for abbreviations are often less than the total frequency given.

Listed also (in italics) are five degrees not reported as currently conferred and their abbreviations as far as known, but without frequencies of use (indicated by x). Included also are three honorary (Hon.) degrees (see chapter V), only two of which are in current use. The arrangement is in terms of associate, bachelor, master, doctor. and other degrees.