2023 Best Painting Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
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Ranked Colleges
46
Degrees Awarded
$39,000
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Painting” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 646 people earned their degree in painting, making the major the 517th most popular in the United States.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 46 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Painting” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in painting. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent painting programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the painting program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Painting
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Painting”.
Top 2 Best Painting Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Temple University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Painting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s painting degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Temple, the school also landed the #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] spot in our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” ranking.Of the 37,236 students enrolled at Temple, 830 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 510 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $13,479. During this same period, 9 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Temple does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Temple University Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Painting list. This small school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 20 ’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.
PAFA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS] on our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list.Of the 188 students enrolled at PAFA, 4 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 3 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $19,755. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full PAFA Veteran Student Life Report
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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