<p>which LACs/Universities (no art schools, please) have top-notch drawing, painting & sculpture programs? Especially offering the opportunity to use live models.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Cooper Union</p>
<p>Gourman Report rankings for undergrad art:
studio art
NYU
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
UC Berkeley
Columbia
Stanford
Bryn Mawr
U Michigan AA
U penn
U Chicago
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Brown
UNC Chapel Hill
UCLA
U Pittsburgh
Indiana U Bloomington
U Delaware
UVA
Boston U
U Maryland College Park
Northwestern
U Minnesota
Rutgers
Penn State
U Kansas
U texas Austin
U Iowa
Washington U St Louis
U Wisconsin Madison
Ohio State
U Washington
Case Western
U New Mexico
U Arizona
U Georgia
U Missouri Columbia
USC
Florida State
U Oregon
Ohio U</p>
<p>maybe you will get some ideas from this list:</p>
<p>Here is a list of top liberal arts colleges sorted by the proportion of bachelors graduates in visual and performing arts. 2004 IPEDS data.</p>
<p>college, SAT 75th percentile, total number of bachelors graduates, number of bachelors graduates in visual and performing arts, proportion of graduates in visual and performing arts</p>
<p>BENNINGTON COLLEGE 1300 129 74 0.57
BARD COLLEGE 1440 306 106 0.35
OBERLIN COLLEGE 1440 722 192 0.27
PRINCIPIA COLLEGE 1270 113 21 0.19
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY 1340 314 58 0.18
SCRIPPS COLLEGE 1440 172 29 0.17
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE 1255 132 21 0.16
BELOIT COLLEGE 1300 261 38 0.15
GOUCHER COLLEGE 1290 272 40 0.15
HOLLINS UNIVERSITY 1280 189 29 0.15
MILLS COLLEGE 1280 194 30 0.15
SAINT OLAF COLLEGE 1340 708 109 0.15
SKIDMORE COLLEGE 1340 597 92 0.15
VASSAR COLLEGE 1460 614 90 0.15
WELLS COLLEGE 1230 91 14 0.15
WHITMAN COLLEGE 1440 337 48 0.14
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 1490 722 92 0.13
WHEATON COLLEGE 1300 356 45 0.13
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 1400 452 54 0.12
PITZER COLLEGE 1330 207 24 0.12
CARLETON COLLEGE 1480 455 48 0.11
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 1380 462 51 0.11
KENYON COLLEGE 1420 399 42 0.11
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE 1320 595 66 0.11
SEWANEE: THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH 1320 313 34 0.11
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 1360 311 34 0.11
WILLIAMS COLLEGE 1520 531 57 0.11
HAMILTON COLLEGE 1420 457 45 0.1
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE 1360 459 46 0.1
SMITH COLLEGE 1370 688 71 0.1
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE 1300 204 18 0.09
BARNARD COLLEGE 1430 600 51 0.09
BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN COLLEGE 1300 236 22 0.09
DENISON UNIVERSITY 1330 514 44 0.09
GRINNELL COLLEGE 1490 367 32 0.09
WHEATON COLLEGE 1420 604 56 0.09
BOWDOIN COLLEGE 1460 414 35 0.08
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY 1320 522 41 0.08
DREW UNIVERSITY 1320 359 30 0.08
KNOX COLLEGE 1340 265 20 0.08
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 1500 632 49 0.08
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE 1380 553 44 0.08
RHODES COLLEGE 1370 334 26 0.08
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND 1355 579 48 0.08
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY 1340 420 34 0.08
AUSTIN COLLEGE 1340 310 22 0.07
BATES COLLEGE 1420 450 30 0.07
CENTRE COLLEGE 1340 258 19 0.07
COLBY COLLEGE 1430 486 32 0.07
COLLEGE OF WOOSTER 1330 391 27 0.07
COLORADO COLLEGE 1380 523 39 0.07
DAVIDSON COLLEGE 1440 426 29 0.07
FURMAN UNIVERSITY 1370 643 46 0.07
MACALESTER COLLEGE 1450 428 29 0.07
REED COLLEGE 1460 310 21 0.07
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY 1250 499 37 0.07
TRINITY COLLEGE 1400 492 33 0.07
WELLESLEY COLLEGE 1460 603 40 0.07</p>