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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,076 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate” 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.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate list. This large school is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it awarded 19 doctorate’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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tulane University of Louisiana. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Louisiana for a Doctorate. Tulane is a private not-for-profit institution located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 110 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Tulane University of Louisiana Visual & Performing Arts Report
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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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