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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Visual & Performing Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 150,273 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In , visual & performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $26,820 and had an average of $26,756 in loans still to pay off.
Across Rhode Island, there were 745 visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,667 and $24,297 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 72 visual & performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,152 and $14,678 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual & performing arts. That schools that top this list have a program in visual & performing arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. New England Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit institution located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 43 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at New England Institute of Technology
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Community College of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual & Performing Arts Major in Rhode Island. CCRI is a public institution located in Warwick, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 29 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Community College of Rhode Island
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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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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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