2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Painting is the 517th most popular major in the country with 646 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 120 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 87 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in painting. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their painting program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree painting students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Southeast Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah College of Art and Design landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Savannah, Georgia, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Painting at SCAD
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Anderson University South Carolina. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region. Anderson University South Carolina is a small school located in Anderson, South Carolina that handed out 6 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Painting at Anderson University South Carolina
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Richmond, Virginia, this large public school awarded 35 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s painting students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Painting at Virginia Commonwealth University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carson - Newman University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region list. Carson - Newman is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jefferson City, Tennessee. It awarded 3 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Painting at Carson - Newman University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region list. MC is a private not-for-profit institution located in Clinton, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Painting at Mississippi College
University of Miami did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Coral Gables, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s painting students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full U Miami Painting Report
Harding University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Harding University is a small school located in Searcy, Arkansas that handed out 0 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Full Harding University Painting Report
Methodist University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Methodist is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It awarded 0 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Painting at Methodist University
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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