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2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts

2 Ranked Colleges
302 Degrees Awarded
$30,900 Avg Cost*
Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts” 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.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent visual and performing arts programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts” list to help you make the college decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts”.

Top 2 Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges for Veterans in Maine

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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized school located in Portland, Maine that handed out 49 ’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Southern Maine, the school also landed the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Of the 8,022 students enrolled at University of Southern Maine, 400 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 174 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,298. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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

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Maine College of Art
Portland, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maine College of Art. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Visual & Performing Arts. Located in Portland, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 63 diplomas to qualified ’s visual and performing arts students in 2020-2021.

Maine College of Art not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.Our most recent data shows that 14 of the 435 students enrolled at Maine College of Art were GI Bill® students, of which 10 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $19,045. During this same period, 5 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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.

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