2022 Best Value Colleges for Other Visual & Performing Arts in Pennsylvania (With Aid)

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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 Pennsylvania, there were 5 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania other visual & performing arts students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Other Visual & Performing Arts in Pennsylvania (With Aid)

#1

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$34,508 Average Net Price

$74,077 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #1 spot on the list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s other visual and performing arts degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. It costs about $34,508 for Pennsylvania Other Visual & Performing Arts students with aid per year to attend Carnegie Mellon.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 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 Carnegie Mellon University

• Best Value Colleges for Other Visual & Performing Arts in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for Other 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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