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2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
49 Degrees Awarded
$12,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Painting is the 492nd most popular major in the country with 739 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 58 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in painting. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent painting 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 painting program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s painting degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is $5,477 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Painting Report

#2

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Ferris State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Ferris is a fairly large school located in Big Rapids, Michigan that handed out 2 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

Ferris did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Ferris is $7,207 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Painting at Ferris State University

#3

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oakland University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Oakland University is a public institution located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Oakland, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oakland is $7,490 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Oakland University Painting Report

#4

American Academy of Art

Chicago, Illinois
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Academy of Art. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s painting students in 2019-2020.

The Academy also took the #4 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for American Academy of Art is $23,987 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $0-$30k.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Painting at The Academy

#5

Art Academy of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Art Academy of Cincinnati. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Art Academy of Cincinnati is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Cincinnati, Ohio. It awarded 6 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at AAC, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for AAC is $19,076 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree painting students whose families make $0-$30k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Painting at AAC

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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.

Credits

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