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2022 Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

2 Ranked Colleges
37 Degrees Awarded
$22,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master's in California For Those Making $48-$75k

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 “Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Museum Studies is the 262nd most popular major in the country with 859 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, museum studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,171 and had an average of $41,641 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 39 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $38,963 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in museum studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great museum studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the museum studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 “Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for california master’s degree museum studies students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Museum Studies (Income $48-$75k) in California

#1

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, San Francisco State University landed the #1 spot on the list. San Francisco State University is a public institution located in San Francisco, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SFSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Museum Studies Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at SFSU are $17,944, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Museum Studies at San Francisco State University

#2

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of San Francisco. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Museum Studies Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in San Francisco, California, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 22 degrees to qualified masters’s museum studies students in 2019-2020.

USFCA also made our “Best Museum Studies Master’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of San Francisco are $26,710, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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