An article written by Thomas Dodson, staff writer for the North Texas Daily, titled "High honors School of Visual Arts named among top schools in North America." North Texas' School of Visual Arts was recognized as one of the top art education graduate programs in North America. The study was conduced by Stanford University and Florida State University, who studied the critiqued graduate level art education in the United States, out of 124 universities, NT was ranked at 13. Dr. Jack Davis, dean of the school of visual arts said that this exposes them nationally in the field of art.