2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Maine

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In 2020-2021, 37,413 people earned their degree in fine and studio arts, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. 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 Maine, there were 147 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,132 and $26,675 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 3 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree fine arts students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Maine

1

Maine Media College
Rockport, Maine

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Maine Media College landed the #1 spot on the list. Maine Media College is a small school located in Rockport, Maine that handed out 11 masters’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Maine College of Art
Portland, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maine College of Art. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Maine. Located in Portland, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 18 degrees to qualified masters’s Fine Arts students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at Maine College of Art

3

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Maine list. University of Maine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at University of Maine

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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

• *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.