2022 Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking.

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

Across California, there were 30 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in painting. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great painting programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the painting program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree painting students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting (Income $30-$48k) in California

#1

California College of the Arts

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$32,503 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, California College of the Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s painting degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

California College of the Arts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. The estimated yearly cost for California College of the Arts is $32,503 for California Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Painting at California College of the Arts

#2

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco, California

#2 in overall quality

$39,994 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, San Francisco Art Institute landed the #2 spot on the list. San Francisco Art Institute is located in San Francisco, California and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 16 bachelors’s painting degrees to qualified students.

SFAI also made our “Best Painting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $39,994 for California Bachelor’s Degree Painting students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend SFAI.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 3 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 San Francisco Art Institute

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting (Income $30-$48k)

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

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

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