2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Painting is the 517th most popular major in the country with 643 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 105 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in painting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in painting.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree painting students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in the Southeast Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah College of Art and Design landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Savannah, Georgia, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Anderson University South Carolina. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Anderson, South Carolina, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region list. Virginia Commonwealth University is a large public school situated in Richmond, Virginia. It awarded 32 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carson - Newman University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region list. Carson - Newman University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jefferson City, Tennessee. It awarded 6 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%.
Read full report on Painting at Carson - Newman
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Clinton, Mississippi, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Painting at MC
University of Miami ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region list. University of Miami is a private not-for-profit institution located in Coral Gables, Florida. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Painting at U Miami
Harding University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Harding is located in Searcy, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s painting degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Painting at Harding University
Methodist University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in the Southeast Region ranking. This small school is located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 Methodist University
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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
- *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.
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