What degree did Andy Warhol earn from Carnegie Institute of Technology?

Andy Warhol earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology.

Warhol studied pictorial design at the Pittsburgh institution, now known as Carnegie Mellon University. He graduated in 1949, shortly before moving to New York City to pursue commercial-art work.

His education was especially relevant to his later career because pictorial design combined visual composition, lettering, and communication. Those skills became useful in magazine illustration, advertising, book design, and eventually his highly recognizable paintings and prints.

People sometimes describe Warhol simply as a self-taught artist because of his distinctive approach to Pop Art. However, he had formal art-school training and a university-level degree. His commercial background was not separate from his fine-art career; it was one of the foundations of his later work.