2022 Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 797 people earned their degree in make-up artist/specialist, making the major the 1020th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 77 make-up artist/specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in make-up artist/specialist. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality make-up artist/specialist programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the make-up artist/specialist program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree make-up artist students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Make-Up Artist/Specialist

#1

San Juan College

Farmington, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$6,115 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Juan College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate. This medium-sized school is located in Farmington, New Mexico, and it awarded 7 associates’s make-up artist degrees in 2019-2020.

SJC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Make-Up Artist/Specialist Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend SJC is $6,115 for associate degree make-up artist students.

Full San Juan College Make-Up Artist/Specialist Report

#2

Douglas Education Center

Monessen, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$28,128 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Douglas Education Center. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate list. Monessen, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s make-up artist degrees to 70 students in 2019-2020.

Douglas Education Center did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Make-Up Artist/Specialist Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $28,128 for Associate Degree Make-Up Artist students per year to attend Douglas Education Center.

Read full report on Make-Up Artist/Specialist at Douglas Education Center

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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