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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 Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 the Plains States region, there were 302 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,272 and $36,554 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Plains States Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minneapolis College of Art and Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at MCAD
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Ames, Iowa, this large public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at Iowa State
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri State University - Springfield. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Plains States Region. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at Missouri State
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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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