2022 Best Value Folk Art Schools for a Bachelor’s 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 Folk Art Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry is the 333rd most popular major in the country with 129 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, crafts, folk art and artisanry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $20,767 and had an average of $26,906 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 72 crafts, folk art and artisanry graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,300 and $23,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 crafts, folk art and artisanry graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality crafts, folk art and artisanry 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 crafts, folk art and artisanry 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Folk Art Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Folk Art Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree folk art students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry in the Southeast Region

#1

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$22,021 Average Net Price

$25,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Folk Art Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #1 spot on the list. Virginia Commonwealth University is a large public school situated in Richmond, Virginia. It awarded 32 bachelors’s folk art degrees in 2019-2020.

VCU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Virginia Commonwealth University is $22,021 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Folk Art students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

Read more about Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry at Virginia Commonwealth University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry

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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