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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. To top this list, a school must have a successful visual and performing arts program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree visual arts students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - San Diego. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s. UCSD is a large school located in La Jolla, California that handed out 14 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at UCSD
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Los Angeles. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at California State University - Los Angeles
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Riverside. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s list. UCR is a large school located in Riverside, California that handed out 1 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
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 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%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UCR
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Oregon University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Far Western US Region for a Master’s. Western Oregon University is a small school located in Monmouth, Oregon that handed out 1 masters’s visual arts degrees 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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