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2022 Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

4 Ranked Colleges
16 Degrees Awarded
$28,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Sculpture is the 714th most popular major in the country with 301 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 16 sculpture graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 sculpture graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sculpture. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent sculpture programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the sculpture program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree sculpture students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sculpture in the Plains States Region

#1

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s sculpture students in 2019-2020.

MCAD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Sculpture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Minneapolis College of Art and Design is $28,717 for plains states region bachelor’s degree sculpture students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Sculpture at MCAD

#2

Kansas City Art Institute

Kansas City, Missouri
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas City Art Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. Located in Kansas City, Missouri, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s sculpture students in 2019-2020.

Kansas City Art Institute also took the #4 spot in our “Best Sculpture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Kansas City Art Institute is $30,452 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Sculpture students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Kansas City Art Institute Sculpture Report

#3

Drake University

Des Moines, Iowa
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drake University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. Drake is located in Des Moines, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s sculpture degrees to qualified students.

Drake not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Sculpture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Drake University is $29,432 for plains states region bachelor’s degree sculpture students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 Sculpture at Drake

#4

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Sculpture Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Washington University in St Louis is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 1 bachelors’s sculpture degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree sculpture students list, WUSTL has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Sculpture Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend WUSTL is $26,869 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Sculpture students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Sculpture at Washington University in St Louis

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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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