2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,122 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 668 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent visual and performing arts programs, but they also cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k”.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree visual arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $75-$110k) in the Far Western US Region

#1

Mt. San Antonio College

Walnut, California

#2 in overall quality

$6,368 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mt. San Antonio College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Walnut, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual arts degrees to 28 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mt. SAC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. It costs about $6,368 for far western us region associate degree visual arts students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Mt. San Antonio College.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Mt. SAC

#2

Santa Rosa Junior College

Santa Rosa, California

#1 in overall quality

$9,366 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Santa Rosa Junior College landed the #2 spot on the list. SRJC is located in Santa Rosa, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 associates’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

SRJC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for SRJC is $9,366 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Visual Arts students whose families make $75-$110k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $75-$110k)

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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