2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Vermont

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Fine Arts Major in Vermont for a Master’s” ranking.

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 Vermont, there were 120 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,373 and $25,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 fine and studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,945 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Fine Arts Major in Vermont for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fine and studio arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular fine and studio arts programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Fine Arts Major in Vermont for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Fine Arts Major in Vermont for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in Vermont

1

Vermont College of Fine Arts
Montpelier, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vermont College of Fine Arts. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Fine Arts Major in Vermont for a Master’s. Vermont College of Fine Arts is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Montpelier, Vermont. It awarded 15 masters’s Fine Arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Fine & Studio Arts at VCFA

2

Northern Vermont University
Johnson, Vermont

#10 overall quality in Vermont

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Fine Arts Major in Vermont for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Vermont University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Johnson, Vermont, this small public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s Fine Arts students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fine & Studio Arts at Northern Vermont 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

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.