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2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

5 Ranked Colleges
57 Degrees Awarded
$30,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor's in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 739 people earned their degree in painting, making the major the 492nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 60 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in painting. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent painting programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the painting program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting (Income $75-$110k) in the Far Western US Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s painting degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UW Seattle also took the #1 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus is $18,110 for far western us region bachelor’s degree painting students whose families make $75-$110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Painting at UW Seattle

#2

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oregon. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k. This large school is located in Eugene, Oregon, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

UO also made our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend UO is $22,282 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $75-$110k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 Painting at UO

#3

University of Puget Sound

Tacoma, Washington
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Puget Sound landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Puget Sound is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Tacoma, Washington. It awarded 1 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

Puget Sound not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. It costs about $35,410 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Puget Sound.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low 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%.

Full University of Puget Sound Painting Report

#4

California College of the Arts

San Francisco, California
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, California College of the Arts landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in San Francisco, California, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

California College of the Arts also took the #3 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. It costs about $36,018 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend California College of the Arts.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 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 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Painting at California College of the Arts

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific Northwest College of Art landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Portland, Oregon, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s painting students in 2019-2020.

Pacific Northwest College of Art did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Pacific Northwest College of Art is $38,885 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read full report on Painting at Pacific Northwest College of Art

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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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