2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Alaska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Alaska, there were 69 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,500 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 68 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,942 and $21,197 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree visual & performing arts students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$12,995 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school handed out 47 degrees to qualified bachelors’s visual and performing arts students in 2019-2020.

UAA also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend University of Alaska Anchorage is $12,995 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.

Full UAA Visual & Performing Arts Report

#2

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 in overall quality

$10,333 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UAF also took the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” ranking. It costs about $10,333 for alaska bachelor’s degree visual & performing arts students per year to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UAF

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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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