2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Great Lakes 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 Master’s in the Great Lakes 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 Great Lakes region, there were 58 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent painting programs, but they also cost less that 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.

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 Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree painting students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$40,900 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Cranbrook Academy of Art is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Carnbrook Academy also took the #1 spot in our “Best Painting Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Cranbrook Academy of Art are $40,900.

Read more about Painting at Cranbrook Academy 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.

Credits

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

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