2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 6,355 people earned their degree in general visual and performing arts, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States. 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 the New England region, there were 271 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,872 and $26,650 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general visual and performing arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general visual and performing arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the New England Region

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Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 45 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Harvard University General Visual & Performing Arts Report

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Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region list. Yale University is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at Yale

• Most Focused Master’s 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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