2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Folk Art
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Ranked Colleges
16
Degrees Awarded
$44,500
Avg Cost*
With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Folk Art” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 119 people earned their degree in crafts, folk art and artisanry, making the major the 341st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, crafts, folk art and artisanry graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $24,452 and had an average of $27,500 in loans still to pay off.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 16 crafts, folk art and artisanry graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,047 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality crafts, folk art and artisanry programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the crafts, folk art and artisanry program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Folk Art
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Folk Art”.
Top 1 Best Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Folk Art that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of the Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of the Arts is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 11 ’s folk art degrees in 2020-2021.
UArts also took the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Among the 1,530 students enrolled at UArts, 42 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 22 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $14,832. During this same period, 10 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
[Read full report on veteran student life at UArts]](/colleges/the-university-of-the-arts/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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