2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in District of Columbia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 37,604 people earned their degree in fine & studio arts, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. In , fine & studio arts graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $25,159 and had an average of $25,720 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 132 fine & studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,805 and $37,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 fine & studio arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fine & studio arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fine & studio arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia master’s degree fine arts students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fine & Studio Arts in District of Columbia

1

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

$38,845 Average Early-Career Earnings

$51,250 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s fine arts degrees to 19 students in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.

Full American University Fine & Studio Arts Report

2

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia. George Washington University is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 22 masters’s fine arts degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%.

Full George Washington University Fine & Studio Arts Report

3

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fine Arts Major in District of Columbia list. Howard is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 3 masters’s fine arts degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at Howard University

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

• *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.

Credits

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