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2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

5 Ranked Colleges
44 Degrees Awarded
$15,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor's in Arkansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 12,032 people earned their degree in fine arts, making the major the 67th most popular in the United States.

Across Arkansas, there were 44 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in fine arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent fine arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the fine arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in Arkansas

#1

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas
#2 in overall quality
$14,906 Average Net Price

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas at Little Rock landed the #1 spot on the list. Little Rock, Arkansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s fine arts degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our arkansas bachelor’s degree fine arts students list, UA Little Rock has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UA Little Rock is $14,906 for arkansas bachelor’s degree fine arts students.

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#2

Harding University

Searcy, Arkansas
#1 in overall quality
$19,375 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas list. Harding University is located in Searcy, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s fine arts degrees to qualified students.

Harding not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $19,375 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students per year to attend Harding University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

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#3

Southern Arkansas University Main Campus

Magnolia, Arkansas
#4 in overall quality
$14,270 Average Net Price

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Arkansas University Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Southern Arkansas University Main Campus is a small school located in Magnolia, Arkansas that handed out 11 bachelors’s fine arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Southern Arkansas University Main Campus not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $14,270 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students per year to attend Southern Arkansas University Main Campus.

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#4

Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, Arkansas
#5 in overall quality
$10,772 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas Tech University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas list. Located in Russellville, Arkansas, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s fine arts students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ATU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. It costs about $10,772 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students per year to attend Arkansas Tech University.

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#5

Ouachita Baptist University

Arkadelphia, Arkansas
#3 in overall quality
$19,815 Average Net Price

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Ouachita Baptist University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s fine arts students in 2019-2020.

Ouachita Baptist did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. It costs about $19,815 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students per year to attend Ouachita Baptist.

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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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