2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Visual & Performing Arts is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,355 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general visual and 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 Pennsylvania, there were 204 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,747 and $24,739 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general visual and performing arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general visual and performing arts.

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Pennsylvania

1

Harrisburg Area Community College
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

$20,870 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harrisburg Area Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual arts degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at Harrisburg Area Community College

2

Bucks County Community College
Newtown, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Bucks County Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Bucks County Community College is located in Newtown, Pennsylvania and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 associates’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

Full Bucks County Community College General Visual & Performing Arts Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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