2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Visual & Performing Arts is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,776 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general visual & performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $25,144 and had an average of $24,433 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,008 general visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,687 and $21,175 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 general visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general visual & performing arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general visual & performing arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree visual arts students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lubbock, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s visual arts degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%.
Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at Texas Tech University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Dallas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Richardson, Texas, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s visual arts degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Dallas
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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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- *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.
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