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

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Visual & Performing Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 149,215 degrees were awarded to students with this major. 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 Maine, there were 302 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,250 and $26,756 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 3 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.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine

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

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Maine

1

University of Maine at Presque Isle
Presque Isle, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine at Presque Isle. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine. This small school is located in Presque Isle, Maine, and it awarded 1 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of Maine at Presque Isle

2

Central Maine Community College
Auburn, Maine

#17 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Maine Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Central Maine Technical College is located in Auburn, Maine and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.

Full Central Maine Community College Visual & Performing Arts Report

3

University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, Maine

#14 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine at Augusta landed the #3 spot on the list. Augusta, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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

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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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