2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Illustration in the Southeast Region
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Illustration is the 255th most popular major in the country with 2,551 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southeast region, there were 566 illustration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 492 illustration graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in illustration. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent illustration 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 illustration program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.
Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Illustration in the Southeast Region
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, John Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Siloam Springs, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s illustration degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.
JBU also took the #4 spot in our “Best Illustration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $21,963 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Illustration students per year to attend JBU.
The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The Art Institute of Atlanta. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. The Art Institute of Atlanta is a small private for-profit school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 9 bachelors’s illustration degrees in 2019-2020.
Ai Atlanta also made our “Best Illustration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $23,051 for southeast region bachelor’s degree illustration students per year to attend The Art Institute of Atlanta.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Commonwealth University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Richmond, Virginia, this large public school awarded 89 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s illustration students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at VCU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Illustration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for VCU is $22,021 for southeast region bachelor’s degree illustration students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. SCAD is a fairly large school located in Savannah, Georgia that handed out 263 bachelors’s illustration degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at SCAD, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Illustration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Savannah College of Art and Design is $43,641 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Illustration students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nossi College of Art. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Nossi College of Art is located in Madison, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s illustration degrees to qualified students.
Nossi College of Art not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Illustration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Nossi College of Art is $21,995 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Illustration students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Ringling College of Art and Design did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Illustration Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. Ringling College of Art and Design is a small school located in Sarasota, Florida that handed out 112 bachelors’s illustration degrees in 2019-2020.
Ringling College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Illustration Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $49,649 for southeast region bachelor’s degree illustration students per year to attend Ringling College of Art and Design.
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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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