2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Delaware

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Delaware” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 149,215 visual and performing arts students received their degree, making the major the 10th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,700 and had an average of $25,051 in loans still to pay off.

Across Delaware, there were 182 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,789 and $21,824 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 48 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,270 and $13,625 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Delaware” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. That schools that top this list have a program in visual and performing arts 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Delaware

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Delaware”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Delaware

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Delaware College of Art and Design
Wilmington, Delaware

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delaware College of Art and Design. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Delaware. Delaware College of Art and Design is a private not-for-profit institution located in Wilmington, Delaware. The school has a small population, and it awarded 27 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Delaware College of Art and Design Visual & Performing Arts Report

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Delaware Technical Community College - Terry
Dover, Delaware

#2 overall quality in Delaware

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Delaware Technical Community College - Terry. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Delaware list. This fairly large school is located in Dover, Delaware, and it awarded 21 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Delaware Tech

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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

• *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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