2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Painting Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the New England region, there were 157 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Painting Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Painting Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the New England Region

#1

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$54,890 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rhode Island School of Design. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Rhode Island School of Design is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

RISD also took the #2 spot in our “Best Painting Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at RISD are $54,890.

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#2

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Boston U is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 15 masters’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Painting Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston University are $57,666, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’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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