2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region
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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 has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Visual & Performing Arts is the 221st most popular major in the country with 3,130 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 992 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, California State University - Los Angeles landed the #1 spot on the list. Cal State LA is a public institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 13 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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 Cal State LA
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - San Diego. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region. UCSD is located in La Jolla, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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 full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of California - San Diego
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Riverside. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region. UCR is located in Riverside, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of California - Riverside
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Oregon University landed the #4 spot on the list. Monmouth, Oregon is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Western Oregon State College
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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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