2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Far Western US Region

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 an Associate in the Far Western US Region” 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 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.

This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great visual and performing arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school. 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 “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Far Western US Region

#1

Santa Rosa Junior College

Santa Rosa, California

#1 in overall quality

$5,782 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Santa Rosa Junior College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Santa Rosa, California, this fairly large public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.

SRJC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SRJC is $5,782 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree Visual Arts students.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at SRJC

#2

Mt. San Antonio College

Walnut, California

#2 in overall quality

$1,729 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mt. San Antonio College landed the #2 spot on the 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.

In addition to being on our far western us region associate degree visual arts students list, Mt. SAC has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Mt. San Antonio College is $1,729 for far western us region associate degree visual arts students.

Full Mt. San Antonio College Visual & Performing Arts Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for 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

• *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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