2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Oregon

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 3,337 people earned their degree in visual and performing arts, making the major the 217th most popular in the United States.

Across Oregon, there were 5 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 a Bachelor’s in Oregon” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Oregon

#1

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$20,016 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oregon State University is a large school located in Corvallis, Oregon that handed out 5 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Oregon State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list. The estimated yearly cost for Oregon State University is $20,016 for Oregon Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Oregon 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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