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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region.

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

#1

University of California - San Diego

La Jolla, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,631 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - San Diego. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region. University of California - San Diego is a large school located in La Jolla, California that handed out 9 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UCSD also took the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - San Diego are $28,631, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at UCSD

#2

California State University - Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

#2 in overall quality

$17,723 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California State University - Los Angeles. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 19 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Cal State LA also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Cal State LA are $17,723.

Full California State University - Los Angeles Visual & Performing Arts Report

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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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