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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Visual & Performing Arts is the 221st most popular major in the country with 3,130 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 284 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 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 2.2% 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%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Texas A&M University - College Station
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Dallas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. The University of Texas at Dallas is located in Richardson, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this fairly large public school handed out 22 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at NMSU Main Campus
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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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