2023 Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island for an Associate

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 149,215 visual and performing arts students received their degree, making the major the 10th most popular in the country. 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 Rhode Island, there were 709 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,667 and $22,440 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 85 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,152 and $15,702 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular visual and performing arts programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island for an Associate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Rhode Island

1

New England Institute of Technology
East Greenwich, Rhode Island

#4 overall quality in Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New England Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island for an Associate list. Located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 51 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at New England Institute of Technology

2

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island

#7 overall quality in Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Community College of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island for an Associate. Located in Warwick, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school awarded 34 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at CCRI

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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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