2022 Best Value Colleges for Art Therapy (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Art Therapy Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Art Therapy is the 512th most popular major in the country with 715 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 42 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality art therapy/therapist programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the art therapy/therapist program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Art Therapy Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Art Therapy Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Art Therapy (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Houston Baptist University

Houston, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$17,593 Average Net Price

$48,731 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Art Therapy Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. HBU is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 ’s art therapy degrees to qualified students.

HBU also made our “Best Art Therapy Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend HBU is $17,593 for southwest region art therapy students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read more about Art Therapy at Houston Baptist University

• Best Value Colleges for Art Therapy (Income $30-$48k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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