2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Illustration Major in Maryland
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$44,000
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Illustration Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Illustration is the 249th most popular major in the country with 2,804 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Maryland, there were 115 illustration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 illustration graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,978 and $45,714 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in illustration in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Illustration Major in Maryland
The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland master’s degree illustration students.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Illustration in Maryland
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Illustration Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryland Institute College of Art landed the #1 spot on the list. Maryland Institute College of Art is a private not-for-profit institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 22 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
