2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Illinois, there were 48 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,350 and $41,514 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 for a Master’s in Illinois”.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Illinois

#1

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$43,912 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, School of the Art Institute of Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at School of the Art Institute of Chicago are $43,912, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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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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