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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting (Income $75-$110k) in California

1 Ranked Colleges
30 Degrees Awarded
$36,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor's in California For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Painting is the 492nd most popular major in the country with 739 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 30 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great painting programs and 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Painting Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting (Income $75-$110k) in California

#1

California College of the Arts

San Francisco, California
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California College of the Arts. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in San Francisco, California, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 14 degrees to qualified bachelors’s painting students in 2019-2020.

California College of the Arts also took the #1 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. The yearly cost to attend California College of the Arts is $36,018 for California Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $75-$110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Painting at California College of the Arts

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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