by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Costume Design is the 1122nd most popular major in the country with 47 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 costume design graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in costume design. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their costume design program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree costume design students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Academy of Art University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in San Francisco, California, and it awarded 7 masters’s costume design degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Costume Design Major. Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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