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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$34,800
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 912 people earned their degree in other visual and performing arts, making the major the 465th most popular in the United States.
Across Massachusetts, there were 41 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 18 other visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,029 and $25,475 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other visual and performing arts programs as well as strong veteran support.
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, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Other Visual & Performing Arts for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #1 spot on the list. Clark is a private not-for-profit institution located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Clark did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list.According to our most recent data, Clark University supports 3,405 students, and 20 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 8 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $10,985. In addition to receiving other benefits, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Clark University]](/colleges/clark-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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