Timeline for How to judge the quality of education of an art school?
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| May 9, 2018 at 0:03 | comment | added | cactus_pardner | Luckily, the U.S. now collects and publishes some of the relevant data. (The salary data is the median for students who had federal financial aid, 10 years after graduating; they probably use tax records to get this information.) Here are the College Scorecards for Visual & Performing Arts programs at Private, For-Profit colleges. (Though they use the typical measure of graduation rate: what percentage graduate in 150% of the stated time.) | |
| May 8, 2018 at 23:40 | comment | added | Mox | @cactus_pardner: These are also good information; good luck finding it in compiled form. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 23:35 | history | edited | Mox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 8, 2018 at 23:26 | comment | added | Mox | @Anyon: Yes, to a reasonable degree. Better schools attract better students--better prepared, with more 'grit', who are more likely to complete, and complete on time. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 21:33 | comment | added | Anyon | Is graduation rate really a reliable proxy for quality? It seems to me that it isn't, at least not on its own. On one extreme you have great but challenging programs with high drop-out rates, and on the other hand diploma mills, which presumably have close to 100% graduation rates. (Although a school with a great program but low graduation rates certainly might want to rethink how they structure things.) | |
| May 8, 2018 at 21:06 | comment | added | cactus_pardner | Further, what percentage of graduates are employed in, say, six months (in art-related fields, and in general)? And how do graduates' starting salary compares to their student debt? | |
| May 8, 2018 at 20:53 | history | answered | Mox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |