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2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k

2 Ranked Colleges
38 Degrees Awarded
$22,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master's in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 155,377 visual and performing arts students received their degree, making the major the 10th most popular in the country. 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 Montana, there were 361 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,386 and $25,557 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,863 and $41,012 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k) in Montana

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k list. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s visual and performing arts degrees to 30 students in 2019-2020.

UM not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Montana” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UM are $23,242.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UM

#2

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Montana For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #2 spot on the list. MSU Bozeman is a fairly large public school situated in Bozeman, Montana. It awarded 8 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Bozeman did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Montana” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Montana State University are $21,446.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at MSU Bozeman

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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%.

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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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