by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Design Major in Kansas for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Design & Applied Arts is the 36th most popular major in the country with 36,301 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, design and applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,426 and had an average of $25,481 in loans still to pay off.
Across Kansas, there were 284 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,059 and $25,248 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Design Major in Kansas for a Master’s” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in design and applied arts. To top this list, a school must have a successful design and applied arts program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Design Major in Kansas for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Design Major in Kansas for a Master’s”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Design Major in Kansas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Wichita State University is a fairly large public school situated in Wichita, Kansas. It awarded 4 masters’s design degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Design Major in Kansas for a Master’s list. University of Kansas is a public institution located in Lawrence, Kansas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Design Major in Kansas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this large public school awarded 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s design students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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