2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Make-Up Artist/Specialist (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Make-Up Artist/Specialist is the 1020th most popular major in the country with 797 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 77 make-up artist/specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in make-up artist/specialist. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent make-up artist/specialist programs, but they also 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 make-up artist/specialist program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree make-up artist students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Make-Up Artist/Specialist (With Aid)

#1

San Juan College

Farmington, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$6,115 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Juan College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid. This medium-sized school is located in Farmington, New Mexico, and it awarded 7 associates’s make-up artist degrees in 2019-2020.

SJC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Make-Up Artist/Specialist Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $6,115 for associate degree make-up artist students with aid per year to attend SJC.

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#2

Douglas Education Center

Monessen, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$28,128 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Douglas Education Center. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Make-Up Artist Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. Douglas Education Center is a small private for-profit school situated in Monessen, Pennsylvania. It awarded 70 associates’s make-up artist degrees in 2019-2020.

Douglas Education Center also took the #2 spot in our “Best Make-Up Artist/Specialist Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Douglas Education Center is $28,128 for Associate Degree Make-Up Artist students with aid.

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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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