All art history majors who have worked with an advisor through the application process have been successfully admitted to competitive graduate programs in art history. Majors also have utilized their rich background in art history toward law and medical school.

Careers include teaching on the college level; directing or curating at a museum or gallery; or working in museum education, art conservation, arts advocacy, visual resources centers, auction houses, historic preservation and art book and catalogue publishing.

The Augustana Teaching Museum of Art and the Visual Resources Center provide work-study opportunities for students to gain first-hand experience in museum operations and collections management.

Through Augustana?s internship program, students may apply for summer, term- or year-long internships at major museums and art organizations, most recently at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.