2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in West Virginia

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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 West Virginia, there were 23 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,642 and $26,170 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in West Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. That schools that top this list have a program in visual and performing arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia bachelor’s degree visual arts students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in West Virginia

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Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

#5 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Marshall University landed the #1 spot on the list. Marshall University is located in Huntington, West Virginia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

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Bethany College West Virginia
Bethany, West Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Bethany College West Virginia landed the #2 spot on the list. Bethany, West Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s visual arts degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Bethany College West Virginia

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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

• *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.

Credits

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