by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Massachusetts” ranking.
Painting is the 517th most popular major in the country with 643 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Massachusetts, there were 66 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 $43,973 and $23,950 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in painting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in painting.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts bachelor’s degree painting students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montserrat College of Art. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Massachusetts list. This small school is located in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Massachusetts. This small school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate 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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth is a medium-sized school located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts that handed out 2 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Massachusetts list. This large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salem State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Massachusetts list. Salem, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s painting degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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