2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Fine Arts is the 66th most popular major in the country with 11,922 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across District of Columbia, there were 31 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fine arts. That schools that top this list have a program in fine arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in District of Columbia
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, American University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s fine arts degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 American University Fine Arts Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. George Washington University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s fine arts degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Fine Arts at George Washington University
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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%.
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- *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.
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