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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Indiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Indiana, there were 2,438 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,484 and $23,911 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 50 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,508 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Indiana” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in visual and performing arts.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Indiana” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Indiana”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Indiana list. Indiana University - Bloomington is a large school located in Bloomington, Indiana that handed out 42 doctorate’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at IU Bloomington
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ball State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Indiana list. Located in Muncie, Indiana, this large public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 Ball State Visual & Performing Arts Report
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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
- *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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