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Is School of Visual Arts worth it?
A first pass affordability and outcome read for School of Visual Arts, using national average inputs. Run your own numbers for a personalized score.
Worth-It Score
Heavy lift
School of Visual Arts lands in the heavy lift band for a typical family. The combination of $57,914 in yearly net price and $27,000 in median debt asks a lot relative to median earnings of $46,459. For context, School of Visual Arts's net price sits about 131% above the typical 4-year, private for-profit school and near the top of its sector range. This does not make the school wrong for every student, but it does mean the price deserves a closer test.
Is the price fair?
Compared to 186 similar 4-year, private for-profit schools
This school
$59,211
/yrAverage school like this
$25,582
/yrThis significantly impacts your Worth-It Score
You'd pay about $33,630 more per year than the typical student at a similar school. Over 4 years that's roughly $135,000 in extra cost.
Score breakdown
The public version of the score weighs affordability, after graduation outcomes, and repayment burden.
Affordability
40% weight
The yearly net price is doing real work against the score and raises the financing burden quickly.
Outcome
40% weight
The outcome data does not create enough margin to fully offset the cost.
Repayment
20% weight
Median debt stays in a more comfortable repayment range for a typical graduate.
The numbers behind the score
Median net price per year
$57,914
Median earnings 10 years out
$46,459
Median debt at graduation
$27,000
Graduation rate
75%
At School of Visual Arts, a typical graduate carries about $27,000 in student debt and earns roughly $46,459 ten years after enrolling. On a standard 10-year repayment plan, that works out to about $307 per month, or 8% of pre-tax income. That sits inside a borrower comfort range for many graduates.
How earnings compare to a high school diploma
Graduates earn $4,659 more than the typical high school graduate ($41,800) ten years after entering this school. A federal rule finalized in July 2026 ties undergraduate student-loan eligibility to a comparison like this one, with the first calculations expected in 2027.
68% of former students here out-earned that benchmark ten years after entry, per College Scorecard.
Context, not a federal determination: the official test will use earnings measured four years after completion and thresholds the Department of Education has not yet published, which may vary by state. Our figure is College Scorecard median earnings ten years after entry. How this works
What this means for your family
School of Visual Arts is a private for-profit school in New York, NY. In this category, families usually need to look especially hard at debt, repayment room, and whether the long-run earnings picture justifies the price.
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Common questions about School of Visual Arts
The median net price at School of Visual Arts is $57,914 per year. That is the average yearly price after typical grant aid for students in the public federal data, not the published sticker price.
Get your personalized Worth-It score
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The Worth-It Score weighs affordability (40%), after graduation outcomes (40%), and repayment burden (20%). Underlying data points come from publicly available federal higher education reporting. See full methodology →
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