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2022 Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
5 Degrees Awarded
$29,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

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 the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,039 people earned their degree in other visual and performing arts, making the major the 428th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 18 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 5 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other visual and performing arts programs and cost less that 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 the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Visual & Performing Arts in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Drake University

Des Moines, Iowa
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Drake University landed the #1 spot on the list. Drake University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Des Moines, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Drake also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $29,432 for plains states region bachelor’s degree other visual & performing arts students with aid per year to attend Drake.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.

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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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