2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Visual Art Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Visual Art Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 912 people earned their degree in other visual art, making the major the 251st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, other visual art graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,565 and had an average of $18,144 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 371 other visual art graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,487 and $22,403 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 other visual art graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Visual Art Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other visual art. That schools that top this list have a program in other visual art 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Visual Art Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Visual Art Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Visual Art in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

#25 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Visual Art Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University of Rochester is a fairly large school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 5 doctorate’s other visual art degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full University of Rochester Other Visual Art Report

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New York University
New York, New York

#9 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Visual Art Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s other visual art students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Other Visual Art at New York University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Other Visual Art

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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