2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 700 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,944 and $116,843 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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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 Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, New York

#2 in overall quality

$26,028 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Buffalo. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Buffalo, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s visual arts degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University at Buffalo, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University at Buffalo are $26,028, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University at Buffalo

#1

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, New York

#1 in overall quality

$58,325 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Troy, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.

RPI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at RPI are $58,325.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Best Value Doctor’s 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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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