2024 Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon
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Ranked Colleges
66
Degrees Awarded
$22,200
Avg Net Price*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 6,355 people earned their degree in general visual & performing arts, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general visual & performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,134 and had an average of $26,019 in loans still to pay off.
Across Oregon, there were 66 general visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,630 and $27,419 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general visual & performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general visual & performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than 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 general visual & performing arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The visual arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon”.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Oregon University. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon list. Southern Oregon University is located in Ashland, Oregon and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 45 ’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
Southern Oregon University also made our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Oregon” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Oregon University is $10,187 for Oregon Visual Arts students.
Full Southern Oregon University General Visual & Performing Arts Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific Northwest College of Art landed the #2 spot on the list. Pacific Northwest College of Art is a small school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 9 ’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Pacific Northwest College of Art not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Oregon” list. It costs about $34,201 for oregon visual arts students per year to attend Pacific Northwest College of Art.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art
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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
- *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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