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2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

5 Ranked Colleges
49 Degrees Awarded
$18,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 58 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered 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.

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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ferris State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Big Rapids, Michigan, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

Ferris also took the #3 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $12,889 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students per year to attend Ferris State University.

Read full report on Painting at Ferris State University

#2

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oakland University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Oakland University is a fairly large public school situated in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It awarded 3 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

Oakland also took the #2 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oakland is $11,802 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students.

Read full report on Painting at Oakland

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #3 spot on the list. UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s painting degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UIUC is $15,880 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Painting at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#4

American Academy of Art

Chicago, Illinois
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Academy of Art. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. The Academy is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 11 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students list, The Academy has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend American Academy of Art is $28,106 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Painting at The Academy

#5

Art Academy of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Art Academy of Cincinnati. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. AAC is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

AAC also took the #5 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Art Academy of Cincinnati is $24,071 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Painting at Art Academy of Cincinnati

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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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