2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Visual & Performing Arts is the 125th most popular major in the country with 6,359 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,577 and had an average of $26,968 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 1,374 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,671 and $26,208 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,342 and $136,270 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general visual and performing arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree visual arts students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)

#1

University of California - San Diego

La Jolla, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,631 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - San Diego landed the #1 spot on the list. University of California - San Diego is a large school located in La Jolla, California that handed out 1 doctorate’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UCSD also made our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCSD are $28,631, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at University of California - San Diego

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts (With Aid)

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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