2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Doctorate in California

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Doctorate in California” ranking.

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

Across California, there were 6 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent art therapy/therapist programs, but they also cost less that 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Doctorate in California” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Doctorate in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california doctor’s degree art therapy students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Art Therapy in California

#1

Notre Dame de Namur University

Belmont, California

#1 in overall quality

$17,884 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Notre Dame de Namur University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Doctorate in California list. NDNU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Belmont, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NDNU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Art Therapy Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Notre Dame de Namur University are $17,884, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full NDNU Art Therapy Report

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barbara E. Carver.

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