Which School of Visual Arts major has the lowest debt?

5 of the 5 School of Visual Arts bachelor's programs that report debt tie for the lowest, a median of $27,000 in federal loans.

How much does School of Visual Arts cost?

Tuition and fees are $51,400 a year for all students. After grants and scholarships, the average net price is $57,914 a year.

How many School of Visual Arts programs report graduate pay?

5 bachelor's programs at School of Visual Arts report first-year pay, and all of them also report federal debt.

School of Visual Arts Programs, Ranked by Graduate Pay and Debt

Private for-profit school
New York, NY
3,244 undergraduates

College Scorecard June 2026 release

The short answer

5 School of Visual Arts bachelor's programs report what graduates earn. Software and Media Applications pays the most in the first year ($36,272), and Design and Applied Arts the least ($15,985). The median program pays $21,344.

Tuition and fees$51,400Per year, for all students

Average net price after aid$57,914Per year

Graduation rate76%Within 6 years

Admission rate93%Of applicants

All 5 bachelor's programs, ranked

Each figure is the median for the program's graduates. "Rank in New York" compares first-year pay with the same field's bachelor's programs across New York. Programs that don't report a figure are listed last when you sort by it.

#	Program	Year 1 pay	Year 5 pay	Debt	Rank in New York
1	Software and Media ApplicationsAbout 333 graduates a year	$36,272	$71,332	$27,000	3rd of 4
2	Graphic CommunicationsAbout 76 graduates a year	$22,478	$35,236	$27,000	2nd of 6
3	Fine and Studio ArtsAbout 65 graduates a year	$21,344	$22,577	$27,000	25th of 35
4	Film and PhotographyAbout 152 graduates a year	$20,312	$34,499	$27,000	16th of 18
5	Design and Applied ArtsAbout 250 graduates a year	$15,985	$50,431	$27,000	18th of 18

Program names link to the program's own page, and New York ranks link to the full ranking for the field. A program gets its own page when it reports both pay and debt and at least five New York programs in the field do too.

Common questions

Software and Media Applications graduates earn a median of $36,272 in their first year, the most of 5 School of Visual Arts bachelor's programs that report pay.

About this data

Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid, and earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school.
Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
Tuition, net price, graduation rate, and admission rate are for the whole school, not one program.
Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of New York rankings when their main campus is in another state.
Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago.

Sources

U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
NCES, IPEDS tuition and fees, 2023-24, for in-district tuition labels