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2024 Best Value Colleges for Painting in California

1 Ranked Colleges
18 Degrees Awarded
$40,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Painting Schools in California

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Painting is the 517th most popular major in the country with 646 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across California, there were 18 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality painting programs that also have a lower cost than 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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The painting school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Painting Schools in California”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. 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 in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Painting Schools in California.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Painting in California

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San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Francisco Art Institute. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Painting Schools in California. San Francisco, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s painting degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our california painting students list, SFAI has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Painting Schools in California” ranking. The yearly cost to attend San Francisco Art Institute is $40,793 for California Painting students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Painting at San Francisco Art Institute

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