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2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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 “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Visual & Performing Arts is the 217th most popular major in the country with 3,337 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 109 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 88 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k”.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Ames, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s visual arts degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Iowa State University is $14,161 for plains states region bachelor’s degree visual arts students whose families make $48-$75k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.

Full Iowa State University Visual & Performing Arts Report

#2

Southeast Missouri State University

Cape Girardeau, Missouri
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Missouri State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, this fairly large public school handed out 37 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.

Southeast Missouri State University also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Southeast Missouri State University is $12,882 for plains states region bachelor’s degree visual arts students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Southeast Missouri State University

#3

Wichita State University

Wichita, Kansas
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wichita State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. WSU is located in Wichita, Kansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree visual arts students whose families make $48-$75k list, WSU has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend WSU is $14,386 for plains states region bachelor’s degree visual arts students whose families make $48-$75k.

Full WSU Visual & Performing Arts Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri State University - Springfield. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Missouri State University - Springfield is a large school located in Springfield, Missouri that handed out 14 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Missouri State, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $16,204 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Missouri State.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Missouri State

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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