2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2019-2020, 715 people earned their degree in art therapy/therapist, making the major the 512th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 259 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 148 art therapy/therapist graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in art therapy/therapist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great art therapy/therapist programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the art therapy/therapist program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree art therapy students with aid.
Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Art Therapy in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a public institution located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at IUPUI, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at IUPUI are $26,013, but some majors have different tuition rates.
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Edwardsville, Illinois, and it awarded 8 masters’s art therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
SIUE not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are $9,300, but some majors have different tuition rates.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Mary University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Mount Mary University is a small school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 18 masters’s art therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
Mount Mary did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Mount Mary are $16,813, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Saint Mary of the Woods, Indiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s art therapy degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.
SMWC also made our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at SMWC are $12,450, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ursuline College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Ursuline College is located in Pepper Pike, Ohio and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 masters’s art therapy degrees to qualified students.
Ursuline College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ursuline College are $22,192, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Art Therapy Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a small school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 13 masters’s art therapy degrees in 2019-2020.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Art Therapy Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at School of the Art Institute of Chicago are $43,912.
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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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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