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2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
53 Degrees Awarded
$50,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master's in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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 Massachusetts, there were 210 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,600 and $28,818 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Massachusetts (With Aid)

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 53 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Harvard not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard University are $50,654, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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%.

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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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