2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Alaska

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 149,215 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, visual and performing arts is the 10th most popular major in the United States. 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 Alaska, there were 62 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,072 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in visual and performing arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their visual and performing arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree visual & performing arts students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Alaska

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 24 bachelors’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UAF Visual & Performing Arts Report

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University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 33 degrees to qualified bachelors’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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 University of Alaska Anchorage Visual & Performing Arts Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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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