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2022 Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

6 Ranked Colleges
52 Degrees Awarded
$25,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor's in Maryland

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Art History is the 175th most popular major in the country with 3,716 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Maryland, there were 60 art history graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 art history graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in art history. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality art history 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 art history program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland bachelor’s degree art history students.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Art History in Maryland

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland list. Located in College Park, Maryland, this large public school awarded 27 degrees to qualified bachelors’s art history students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maryland bachelor’s degree art history students list, UMCP has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Art History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Maryland - College Park is $19,045 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Art History students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Art History at University of Maryland - College Park

#2

Towson University

Towson, Maryland
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Towson University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland. Towson, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s art history degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Towson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Art History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. It costs about $18,233 for maryland bachelor’s degree art history students per year to attend Towson University.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Art History at Towson University

#3

St Mary's College of Maryland

St. Mary's City, Maryland
#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St Mary’s College of Maryland. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland. Located in St. Mary’s City, Maryland, this small public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s art history students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maryland bachelor’s degree art history students list, SMCM has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Art History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. The yearly cost to attend St Mary’s College of Maryland is $19,369 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Art History students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Art History at SMCM

#4

Goucher College

Baltimore, Maryland
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Goucher College landed the #4 spot on the list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s art history degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maryland bachelor’s degree art history students list, Goucher has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Art History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Goucher College is $25,716 for maryland bachelor’s degree art history 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%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Goucher College Art History Report

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryland Institute College of Art landed the #5 spot on the list. This small school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s art history degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maryland bachelor’s degree art history students list, MICA has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Art History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Maryland Institute College of Art is $38,921 for maryland bachelor’s degree art history students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Art History at Maryland Institute College of Art

#6

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland
#2 in overall quality

Johns Hopkins University landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Art History Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland ranking. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s art history degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins also took the #2 spot in our “Best Art History Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Johns Hopkins is $29,342 for maryland bachelor’s degree art history students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Art History at Johns Hopkins

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.

Credits

  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

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