2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in Minnesota (With 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 Master’s in Minnesota 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 Minnesota, there were 63 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,400 and $41,514 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,396 and $40,953 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.

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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The visual arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique 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 Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

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

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

#1

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$41,794 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Minneapolis College of Art and Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Minneapolis, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s visual arts degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

MCAD not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at MCAD are $41,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at MCAD

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Plains States Region (With Aid)
• 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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