2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in North Dakota

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Fine & Studio Arts is the 31st most popular major in the country with 37,413 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, fine and studio arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,051 and had an average of $25,492 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Dakota, there were 35 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,120 and $27,473 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in fine and studio arts. That schools that top this list have a program in fine and studio arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for north dakota bachelor’s degree fine arts students.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in North Dakota

1

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

$25,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Fargo, North Dakota that handed out 17 bachelors’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at North Dakota State University

2

Valley City State University
Valley City, North Dakota

#4 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Valley City State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota list. Valley City, North Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s Fine Arts degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fine & Studio Arts at Valley City State University

3

Minot State University
Minot, North Dakota

#6 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minot State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota. Located in Minot, North Dakota, this small public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s Fine Arts students in 2020-2021.

Full MSU Fine & Studio Arts Report

4

University of Jamestown
Jamestown, North Dakota

#10 overall quality in North Dakota

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Jamestown landed the #4 spot on the list. UJ is located in Jamestown, North Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s Fine Arts degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at UJ

5

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in North Dakota list. University of North Dakota is a public institution located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UND Fine & Studio Arts Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts

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

• *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.

Credits

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