2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine

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 Master’s in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 155,377 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, visual and performing arts is the 10th most popular major in the United States. 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 Maine, there were 318 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,550 and $23,489 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

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

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Maine

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine. UMaine is a public institution located in Orono, Maine. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMaine also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at UMaine

#2

Maine College of Art

Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$37,250 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maine College of Art. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for a Master’s in Maine. Maine College of Art is a small school located in Portland, Maine that handed out 16 masters’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maine master’s degree visual & performing arts students list, Maine College of Art has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Maine College of Art are $37,250, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Maine College of Art

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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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