2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States 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 a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 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” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Plains States Region

#1

Southeast Missouri State University

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

#3 in overall quality

$12,774 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeast Missouri State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Southeast Missouri State University is a public institution located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Southeast Missouri State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $12,774 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts students per year to attend Southeast Missouri State University.

Full Southeast Missouri State University Visual & Performing Arts Report

#2

Missouri State University - Springfield

Springfield, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$16,725 Average Net Price

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri State University - Springfield landed the #2 spot on the list. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s visual arts degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

Missouri State also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Missouri State is $16,725 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts students.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Missouri State

#3

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$15,496 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Iowa State University is a large school located in Ames, Iowa that handed out 5 bachelors’s visual arts degrees 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. It costs about $15,496 for plains states region bachelor’s degree visual arts students per year to attend Iowa State University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Iowa State

#4

Wichita State University

Wichita, Kansas

#4 in overall quality

$14,382 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wichita State University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Wichita State University 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.

WSU also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $14,382 for plains states region bachelor’s degree visual arts students per year to attend Wichita State University.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Wichita State University

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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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