2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region
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In 2019-2020, 715 people earned their degree in art therapy/therapist, making the major the 512th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 259 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 148 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in art therapy/therapist. 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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Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree art therapy students.
Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Art Therapy in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount Mary University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it awarded 18 masters’s art therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mount Mary, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Mount Mary are $16,813, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Saint Mary of the Woods, Indiana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified masters’s art therapy students in 2019-2020.
SMWC also took the #4 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at SMWC are $12,450, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. IUPUI is located in Indianapolis, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 masters’s art therapy degrees to qualified students.
IUPUI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at IUPUI are $26,013, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ursuline College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Ursuline College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pepper Pike, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 20 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Ursuline College also made our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #5. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ursuline College are $22,192, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Adler University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 57 degrees to qualified masters’s art therapy students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Adler, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Adler are $37,732, but some majors have different tuition rates.
With a ranking of #6, School of the Art Institute of Chicago did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s art therapy degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago also took the #6 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at School of the Art Institute of Chicago are $43,912, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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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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