2022 Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Other Visual & Performing Arts is the 428th most popular major in the country with 1,039 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 75 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other 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 other visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Visual & Performing Arts (Income $30-$48k) in California

#1

Saint Mary's College of California

Moraga, California

#1 in overall quality

$25,737 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Mary’s College of California landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Moraga, California, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 25 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other visual and performing arts students in 2019-2020.

SMC also made our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $25,737 for California Bachelor’s Degree Other Visual & Performing Arts students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Saint Mary’s College of California.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Other Visual & Performing Arts at SMC

#2

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco, California

#2 in overall quality

$39,994 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Francisco Art Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $30-$48k list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other visual and performing arts degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

SFAI also took the #2 spot in our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. It costs about $39,994 for California Bachelor’s Degree Other Visual & Performing Arts students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend San Francisco Art Institute.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full San Francisco Art Institute Other Visual & Performing Arts Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Visual & Performing Arts (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Visual & Performing Arts (Income $30-$48k)

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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