2021 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region
4Colleges
688Bachelor's Degrees
$30,796Avg Cost*
Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools for Non-Traditional Students
For this year's Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a bachelor's in visual arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general visual & performing arts programs and a strong support system for non-traditional students.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general visual & performing arts program at the school, affordability, and presence of non-traditional students. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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2021 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges for Non-Traditional Students.
Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools for Non-Traditional Students
Grand Canyon University has taken the #1 spot in this year's general visual & performing arts ranking for non-traditional students. Located in the city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population. Grand Canyon University also took the #5 spot in our Best Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Southwest Region rankings.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.5%. 79,865 students at Grand Canyon University are exclusively online. About 80,777 of the students at Grand Canyon University are attending part time.
The University of Texas at Dallas earned the #2 spot in our 2021 rankings. Located in the midsize city of Richardson, UT Dallas is a public school with a very large student population. UT Dallas did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Southwest Region list.
The student loan default rate at UT Dallas is lower than is typical, just 1.4% of students default in three years. Approximately 10,632 students take at least one class online at UT Dallas. There are roughly 5,977 part time students in attendance at UT Dallas.
The #3 spot in this year's ranking belongs to The University of Texas at Austin. UT Austin is a very large public school located in the city of Austin. UT Austin not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #2 on our Best Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Southwest Region list.
The student loan default rate at UT Austin is lower than is typical, just 0.8% of students default in three years. Approximately 23,198 students take at least one class online at UT Austin. 3,479 of UT Austin students are attending part time.
New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #4 spot in our 2021 best general visual & performing arts schools for non-traditional students. Located in the suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public school with a large student population. NMSU Main Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Southwest Region list.
The student loan default rate at NMSU Main Campus is lower than is typical, just 3.9% of students default in three years. There are approximately 7,734 students at NMSU Main Campus that take at least one class online. 3,478 of NMSU Main Campus students are attending part time.
Non-Traditional Student Rankings in Majors Related to Visual Arts
One of 10 majors within the Visual & Performing Arts area of study, General Visual & Performing Arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Cost is for the top 4 schools only.
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 the rest 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).
