2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Montana

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 39,860 people earned their degree in fine and studio arts, making the major the 29th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, fine and studio arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,847 and had an average of $28,316 in loans still to pay off.

Across Montana, there were 120 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,150 and $27,232 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 107 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,286 and $23,603 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fine and studio arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great fine and studio arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the fine and studio arts 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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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 Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Montana

#1

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana

#1 in overall quality

$19,202 Average Net Price

$26,997 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #1 spot on the list. MSU Bozeman is a fairly large public school situated in Bozeman, Montana. It awarded 59 bachelors’s Fine Arts degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our montana bachelor’s degree fine arts students list, MSU Bozeman has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. It costs about $19,202 for montana bachelor’s degree fine arts students per year to attend Montana State University.

Full MSU Bozeman Fine & Studio Arts Report

#2

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana

#2 in overall quality

$15,246 Average Net Price

$21,312 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Montana. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Fine Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana. UM is a medium-sized school located in Missoula, Montana that handed out 32 bachelors’s Fine Arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UM also took the #2 spot in our “Best Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Montana is $15,246 for Montana Bachelor’s Degree Fine Arts students.

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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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