2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland” ranking.

General Visual & Performing Arts is the 125th most popular major in the country with 6,359 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,577 and had an average of $26,968 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 86 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general visual and performing arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Maryland

#1

Maryland Institute College of Art

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$38,921 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryland Institute College of Art landed the #1 spot on the list. MICA is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 27 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

MICA also made our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for MICA is $38,921 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at MICA

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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.

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