2023 Most Popular Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Alaska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska” ranking - to help you make that decision.

With 149,215 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, visual and performing arts is the 10th most popular major in the United States. 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 Alaska, there were 62 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,072 and $27,000 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$49,843 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,309 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska list. This fairly large school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 33 ’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UAA

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$45,077 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,561 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 27 degrees to qualified ’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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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