2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Southwest region, there were 844 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,687 and $20,724 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree visual arts students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Dallas landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Richardson, Texas, this large public school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full UT Dallas General Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region list. College Station, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at Texas A&M College Station
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It awarded 22 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Full NMSU Main Campus 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
- *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.
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