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2024 Best Value Painting Schools in Oregon

1 Ranked Colleges

10 Degrees Awarded

$34,200 Avg Net Price*

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 Oregon” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Oregon, there were 10 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the painting program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Painting Schools in Oregon

The colleges and universities below are the best for oregon painting students.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Painting in Oregon

Pacific Northwest College of Art
Portland, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$34,201 Average Net Price

$23,587 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pacific Northwest College of Art. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Painting Schools in Oregon. Pacific Northwest College of Art is a small school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 10 ’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.

Pacific Northwest College of Art also made our “Best Painting Schools in Oregon” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Pacific Northwest College of Art is $34,201 for oregon painting students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 Pacific Northwest College of Art

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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.

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