2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Art Therapy in the Southeast Region
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” 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 Southeast region, there were 58 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in art therapy/therapist. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree art therapy students.
Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Art Therapy in the Southeast Region
Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, West Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. West Liberty University is a small public school situated in West Liberty, West Virginia. It awarded 4 bachelors’s art therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
West Liberty University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Art Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $13,793 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Art Therapy students per year to attend West Liberty University.
Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Union University landed the #2 spot on the list. Union University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Jackson, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Union also took the #3 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $28,249 for southeast region bachelor’s degree art therapy students per year to attend Union.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Adventist University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Collegedale, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s art therapy degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Southern Adventist, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Adventist is $22,661 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Art Therapy students.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Converse College landed the #4 spot on the list. Spartanburg, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s art therapy degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.
Converse also took the #5 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Converse College is $12,685 for southeast region bachelor’s degree art therapy students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Piedmont College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Piedmont College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Demorest, Georgia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Piedmont College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Art Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $18,950 for southeast region bachelor’s degree art therapy students per year to attend Piedmont College.
With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
The University of Tampa came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. UT is a private not-for-profit institution located in Tampa, Florida. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
UT also took the #2 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Tampa is $30,990 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Art Therapy students.
The low student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Lipscomb University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Lipscomb University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 5 bachelors’s art therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
Lipscomb also took the #1 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Lipscomb is $24,749 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Art Therapy students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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