2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Louisiana

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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 Louisiana, there were 41 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,435 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Louisiana” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general visual and performing arts. That schools that top this list have a program in general visual and performing arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Louisiana”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Louisiana

1

Louisiana State University - Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana

#7 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University - Shreveport landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Shreveport, Louisiana, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at Louisiana State University - Shreveport

2

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

#5 overall quality in Louisiana

$22,435 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Louisiana. Located in Lafayette, Louisiana, this fairly large public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at UL Lafayette

3

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#11 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Xavier University of Louisiana. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Louisiana. XULA is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Xavier University of Louisiana 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

• *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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