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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska” ranking.

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 Nebraska, there were 777 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,521 and $21,935 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 142 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,713 and $18,510 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Nebraska

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

Top 7 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Nebraska

1

Metropolitan Community College
Omaha, Nebraska

#8 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska list. Metropolitan Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Omaha, Nebraska. It awarded 107 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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 Metropolitan Community College Visual & Performing Arts Report

2

Western Nebraska Community College
Scottsbluff, Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Nebraska Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska list. This small school is located in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and it awarded 4 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at WNCC

3

Northeast Community College
Norfolk, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeast Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska. Norfolk, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Northeast

4

Southeast Community College Area
Lincoln, Nebraska

#13 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Community College Area landed the #4 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 8 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Southeast Community College Area

5

Mid-Plains Community College
North Platte, Nebraska

#19 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mid-Plains Community College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska list. This small school is located in North Platte, Nebraska, and it awarded 2 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Mid-Plains Community College

6

Union College Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

With a ranking of #6, Union College Nebraska did quite well on the 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska list. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Union College

7

Central Community College
Grand Island, Nebraska

#17 overall quality in Nebraska

Central Community College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Nebraska ranking. Grand Island, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Central Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts

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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