2022 Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 “Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 257 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

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

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree painting students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Painting in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Pratt Institute - Main

Brooklyn, New York

#1 in overall quality

$45,571 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pratt Institute - Main. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Brooklyn, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified associates’s painting students in 2019-2020.

Pratt Institute not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Painting Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Pratt Institute - Main is $45,571 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Painting students.

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 school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Painting at Pratt Institute

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

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