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2022 Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
24 Degrees Awarded
$16,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Drawing is the 680th most popular major in the country with 358 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 35 drawing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 drawing graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in drawing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent drawing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the drawing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree drawing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drawing (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oakland University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Oakland is a fairly large school located in Rochester Hills, Michigan that handed out 3 bachelors’s drawing degrees in 2019-2020.

Oakland also made our “Best Drawing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $7,490 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Drawing students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Oakland University.

Full Oakland Drawing Report

#2

Shawnee State University

Portsmouth, Ohio
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Shawnee State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Shawnee State University is located in Portsmouth, Ohio and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s drawing degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our great lakes region bachelor’s degree drawing students whose families make $0-$30k list, Shawnee State University has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Drawing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Shawnee State University is $13,697 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree drawing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Drawing at Shawnee State University

#3

Bradley University

Peoria, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bradley University landed the #3 spot on the list. Bradley is a private not-for-profit institution located in Peoria, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Bradley not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Drawing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $17,205 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree drawing students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Bradley.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%.

Full Bradley University Drawing Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana Wesleyan University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. IWU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Marion, Indiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region bachelor’s degree drawing students whose families make $0-$30k list, IWU has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Drawing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $17,450 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree drawing students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Indiana Wesleyan University.

Read more about Drawing at IWU

#5

American Academy of Art

Chicago, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Drawing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, American Academy of Art landed the #5 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s drawing degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

The Academy not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Drawing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend American Academy of Art is $23,987 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Drawing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full American Academy of Art Drawing Report

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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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