2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine” 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 Maine, there were 302 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,250 and $26,756 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Maine

1

Maine Media College
Rockport, Maine

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Maine Media College landed the #1 spot on the list. Maine Media College is a small school located in Rockport, Maine that handed out 11 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Maine Media College

2

Maine College of Art
Portland, Maine

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Maine College of Art landed the #2 spot on the list. Portland, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s visual and performing arts degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Maine College of Art

3

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine list. UMaine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 8 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UMaine

4

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Maine. This medium-sized school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 5 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the New England Region
• Most Focused Master’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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