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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 3,211 people earned their degree in visual & performing arts, making the major the 221st most popular in the United States.

Across Virginia, there were 272 visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,140 and $42,203 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in visual & performing arts. That schools that top this list have a program in visual & performing arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Virginia”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Virginia

1

Regent University
Virginia Beach, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regent University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Virginia list. Regent is a fairly large school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia that handed out 2 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Regent University Visual & Performing Arts Report

2

Norfolk State University
Norfolk, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Norfolk State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Virginia list. Norfolk State is located in Norfolk, Virginia and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 masters’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Norfolk State University

3

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

#5 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #3 spot on the list. GMU is a large school located in Fairfax, Virginia that handed out 6 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full George Mason University Visual & Performing Arts Report

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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