2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Visual Communications is the 154th most popular major in the country with 5,765 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Virginia, there were 330 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 76 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual communications. That schools that top this list have a program in visual communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in Virginia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual Communications in Virginia

1

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

#13 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s graphic arts degrees to 63 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual Communications at Liberty University

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Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

#8 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #2 spot on the list. Richmond, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s graphic arts degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 Visual Communications at VCU

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.