2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 22 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

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

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$12,838 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #1 spot on the list. UH is a large public school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 17 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

UH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UH is $12,838 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Painting at UH

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting

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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