2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Montana (With Aid)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 6,359 people earned their degree in general visual and performing arts, making the major the 125th most popular in the United States. 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 Montana, there were 14 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,863 and $41,012 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank General Visual & Performing Arts Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

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

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana

#1 in overall quality

$23,242 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$49,019 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Missoula, Montana, this medium-sized public school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.

UM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Montana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UM are $23,242, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at UM

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• Best Value Master’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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