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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 3,130 people earned their degree in visual and performing arts, making the major the 221st most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 148 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 115 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 14 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in visual and performing arts.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bennington College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region. Bennington College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bennington, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Bennington
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in North Adams, Massachusetts, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Worcester State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region list. Worcester State is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Worcester State University
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Champlain College landed the #4 spot on the list. Burlington, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s visual arts degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.
Full Champlain Visual & Performing Arts Report
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Farmington landed the #5 spot on the list. This small school is located in Farmington, Maine, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University of Maine at Farmington
Stonehill College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region ranking. Located in Easton, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%.
Full Stonehill Visual & Performing Arts Report
Harvard University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region ranking. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Harvard
With a ranking of #8, College of the Holy Cross did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region list. Worcester, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s visual arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at College of the Holy Cross
With a ranking of #9, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region list. University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth is a medium-sized public school situated in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It awarded 2 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth
Suffolk University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region ranking, coming in at #10. Suffolk is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Suffolk
Boston University landed the #11 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region ranking. Boston University is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Boston U
Bowdoin College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region ranking, coming in at #12. Located in Brunswick, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Bowdoin College Visual & Performing Arts Report
Endicott College landed the #12 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region ranking. Endicott College is located in Beverly, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Endicott
Bard College at Simon’s Rock landed the #12 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the New England Region ranking. Simon’s Rock is a small school located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts that handed out 0 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Simon’s Rock
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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