2022 Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” 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.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great painting programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the painting program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Painting (With Aid)

#1

Pratt Institute - Main

Brooklyn, New York

#1 in overall quality

$45,571 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Painting Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Pratt Institute - Main landed the #1 spot on the list. Pratt Institute is located in Brooklyn, New York and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 associates’s painting degrees to qualified students.

Pratt Institute also made our “Best Painting Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Pratt Institute - Main is $45,571 for associate degree painting students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 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 Pratt Institute - Main

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.

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

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