2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Louisiana

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 155,377 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, visual and performing arts is the 10th most popular major in the United States. 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 Louisiana, there were 1,270 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,327 and $23,095 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,594 and $127,014 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Louisiana

#1

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$29,970 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Louisiana list. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s visual and performing arts degrees to 32 students in 2019-2020.

Louisiana State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Louisiana State University are $29,970.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical 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

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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