by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Louisiana” 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 Louisiana, there were 1,195 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,464 and $26,873 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 144 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer 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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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana master’s degree visual & performing arts students.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Orleans landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school awarded 27 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.
Full University of New Orleans Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University New Orleans. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana. Loyola University New Orleans is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 10 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 Loyola University New Orleans Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that handed out 48 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Full Louisiana State University Visual & Performing Arts Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana. Natchitoches, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual and performing arts degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 24 degrees to qualified masters’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Tulane University of Louisiana
Southeastern Louisiana University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana ranking. Hammond, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual and performing arts degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
With a ranking of #7, University of Louisiana at Lafayette did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana list. Lafayette, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual and performing arts degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
Full University of Louisiana at Lafayette Visual & Performing Arts Report
Louisiana Tech University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana list. Louisiana Tech is a fairly large school located in Ruston, Louisiana that handed out 3 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.
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