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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.
Visual & Performing Arts is the 221st most popular major in the country with 3,130 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 672 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree visual arts students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Troy, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Buffalo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Buffalo, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s visual arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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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%.
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- *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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