2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in West Virginia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 6,359 people earned their degree in general visual and performing arts, making the major the 125th most popular in the United States. 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 West Virginia, there were 21 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 West Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia master’s degree visual arts students.

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

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. WVU is a large public school situated in Morgantown, West Virginia. It awarded 3 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

WVU also made our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at West Virginia University are $26,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full WVU General Visual & Performing Arts Report

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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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