2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Visual & Performing Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 155,377 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,427 and had an average of $28,377 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 1,753 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,547 and $24,636 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,570 and $105,639 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent visual and performing arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut doctor’s degree visual & performing arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k) in Connecticut

#1

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$44,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut For Those Making $0-$30k. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Haven, Connecticut. It awarded 21 doctorate’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Yale, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Yale are $44,500, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Connecticut is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 1 doctorate’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Connecticut are $41,576, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full UCONN Visual & Performing Arts Report

#3

University of Hartford

West Hartford, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$14,847 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hartford. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut For Those Making $0-$30k. West Hartford, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s visual and performing arts degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UHart, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Hartford are $14,847, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UHart

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k)

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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