2022 Best Value Folk Art Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2019-2020, 129 people earned their degree in crafts, folk art and artisanry, making the major the 333rd most popular in the United States. 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 Great Lakes region, there were 29 crafts, folk art and artisanry graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,900 and $28,688 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 crafts, folk art and artisanry graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great crafts, folk art and artisanry programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the crafts, folk art and artisanry program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Folk Art Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Folk Art Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Kent State University at Kent

Kent, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$21,952 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kent State University at Kent. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Folk Art Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Kent State is a large school located in Kent, Ohio that handed out 1 masters’s folk art degrees in 2019-2020.

Kent State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Kent State University at Kent are $21,952, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry at Kent State

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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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