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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 284 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 167 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 14 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree visual arts students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rogers State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region. RSU is located in Claremore, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Rogers State University Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region. Rice is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 26 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Rice Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Prescott College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Prescott, Arizona, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Prescott College Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region list. NMSU Main Campus is a public institution located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full NMSU Main Campus Visual & Performing Arts Report
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Downtown landed the #5 spot on the list. University of Houston - Downtown is located in Houston, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at UH Downtown
The University of Texas at Dallas did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. The University of Texas at Dallas is a large school located in Richardson, Texas that handed out 30 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas
University of New Mexico - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #7. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s visual arts degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
Full University of New Mexico - Main Campus Visual & Performing Arts Report
Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region ranking. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 20 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe Visual & Performing Arts Report
Texas A&M University - College Station ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Texas A&M University - College Station
Texas Tech University landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas Tech is a large public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 5 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Texas Tech University
The University of Texas at Austin landed the #11 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin
Arizona State University - Skysong did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #12. Arizona State University - Skysong is a large school located in Scottsdale, Arizona that handed out 0 bachelors’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Arizona State University - Skysong
Western New Mexico University landed the #12 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Western New Mexico University is located in Silver City, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Western New Mexico University
University of Arizona ranked #12 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this large public school awarded 0 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 85%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of Arizona
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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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