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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 672 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in visual and performing arts.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wilson College landed the #1 spot on the list. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Wilson
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purchase College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Purchase, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
Full Purchase College Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The College at Brockport. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. SUNY Brockport is located in Brockport, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at The College at Brockport
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brooklyn College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Brooklyn College is a fairly large school located in Brooklyn, New York that handed out 2 masters’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%.
Full Brooklyn College Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Buffalo. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in Buffalo, New York, and it awarded 1 masters’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 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%.
Full University at Buffalo Visual & Performing Arts Report
Ramapo College of New Jersey came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Ramapo College is a medium-sized public school situated in Mahwah, New Jersey. It awarded 12 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Ramapo College Visual & Performing Arts Report
With a ranking of #6, William Paterson University of New Jersey did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. William Paterson University is a public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full William Paterson University Visual & Performing Arts Report
The City College of New York ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in New York, New York, this fairly large public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s visual arts students 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%.
Full The City College of New York Visual & Performing Arts Report
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a medium-sized school located in Troy, New York that handed out 10 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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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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