2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

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 “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Visual & Performing Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 155,377 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,427 and had an average of $28,377 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 318 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,550 and $23,489 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in visual and performing arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great visual and performing arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k) in Maine

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine

$22,308 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual and performing arts degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University of Southern Maine

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Maine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 5 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352.

Full University of Maine Visual & Performing Arts Report

#3

Maine College of Art

Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$37,250 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maine College of Art. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k list. Maine College of Art is located in Portland, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 16 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.

Maine College of Art also took the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Maine College of Art are $37,250.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Maine College of Art

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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