2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Maine
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,211 people earned their degree in visual & performing arts, making the major the 221st most popular in the United States.
Across Maine, there were 4 visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,251 and $23,910 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual & performing arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their visual & performing arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Maine
The colleges and universities below are the best for maine bachelor’s degree visual arts students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Maine
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Farmington. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Maine list. Located in Farmington, Maine, this small public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 University of Maine at Farmington
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Bowdoin College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Brunswick, Maine, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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 Bowdoin
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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