2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in North Carolina

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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in North Carolina” 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 North Carolina, there were 4,508 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,820 and $24,919 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,744 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina doctor’s degree visual & performing arts students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in North Carolina

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina

#11 overall quality in North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in North Carolina. UNC Greensboro is a fairly large public school situated in Greensboro, North Carolina. It awarded 9 doctorate’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in North Carolina. Located in Durham, North Carolina, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

#2 overall quality in North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in North Carolina list. Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this large public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UNC Chapel Hill

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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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