2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 321 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,867 and $27,909 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general visual and performing arts 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 general visual and performing arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. 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 for a Master’s in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree visual arts students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the New England Region

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$50,654 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 53 masters’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

Harvard also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard University are $50,654, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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