2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey

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Fine Arts is the 66th most popular major in the country with 11,681 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across New Jersey, there were 149 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 fine arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,273 and $23,888 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in fine arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fine arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fine Arts in New Jersey

1

Drew University
Madison, New Jersey

#21 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drew University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey list. This small school is located in Madison, New Jersey, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s fine arts degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

Stockton University
Galloway, New Jersey

#16 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stockton University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey. Stockton University is a medium-sized school located in Galloway, New Jersey that handed out 37 bachelors’s fine arts degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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3

Saint Peter's University
Jersey City, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Peter’s University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey. Jersey City, New Jersey is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s fine arts degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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4

Kean University
Union, New Jersey

#17 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kean University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey list. Located in Union, New Jersey, this fairly large public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s fine arts students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

Full Kean Fine Arts Report

5

New Jersey City University
Jersey City, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey City University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in New Jersey. NJCU is a medium-sized public school situated in Jersey City, New Jersey. It awarded 2 bachelors’s fine arts degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Fine Arts at New Jersey City University

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

• *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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.