by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Virginia, there were 769 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,871 and $27,694 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,799 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 6 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Radford University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia. Located in Radford, Virginia, this medium-sized public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s Fine Arts students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Commonwealth University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia. Located in Richmond, Virginia, this large public school awarded 21 diplomas to qualified masters’s Fine Arts students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 Fine & Studio Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia list. Fairfax, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s Fine Arts degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia list. Liberty University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. It awarded 1 masters’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend James Madison University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia. JMU is a large school located in Harrisonburg, Virginia that handed out 132 masters’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Virginia - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in Virginia list. University of Virginia is a public institution located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 71 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Virginia - Main Campus Fine & Studio Arts Report
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