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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Visual & Performing Arts is the 465th most popular major in the country with 912 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 371 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 206 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 14 colleges that offer a degree in other visual and performing arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other visual and performing arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other visual & performing arts students.
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wells College landed the #1 spot on the list. Wells College is a small school located in Aurora, New York that handed out 1 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Wells Other Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Russell Sage College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Russell Sage College is a small school located in Troy, New York that handed out 7 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees 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%.
Full Russell Sage College Other Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nazareth College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Nazareth College is located in Rochester, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
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Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the #4 spot on the list. New York University is located in New York, New York and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 92 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, 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 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full New York University Other Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Delaware State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Dover, Delaware, this medium-sized public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Other Visual & Performing Arts at Delaware State University
University of Baltimore landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. UB is a small school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 6 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
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Columbia University in the City of New York ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 64 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
Read more about Other Visual & Performing Arts at Columbia
Cornell University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, coming in at #8. This large school is located in Ithaca, New York, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Visual & Performing Arts at Cornell
Swarthmore College landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Swarthmore College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Other Visual & Performing Arts at Swarthmore
Adelphi University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, coming in at #10. Adelphi is located in Garden City, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 Adelphi Other Visual & Performing Arts Report
Carnegie Mellon University ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Carnegie Mellon University is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, 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 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Other Visual & Performing Arts at Carnegie Mellon
With a ranking of #11, Maryland Institute College of Art did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. MICA is a private not-for-profit institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Other Visual & Performing Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art
LIU Post ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This fairly large school is located in Brookville, New York, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read more about Other Visual & Performing Arts at LIU Post
Waynesburg University came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Visual & Performing Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Waynesburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
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 Other Visual & Performing Arts at Waynesburg
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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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