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Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$36,909 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Doctor's Degree School for You

Fine & Studio Arts is the #32 most popular major in the country with 37,413 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for Fine Arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Fine & Studio Arts

Our analysis found The University of Texas at Austin to be the best value school for fine and studio arts students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Southwest Region . Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Austin are $22,944 per year.

UT Austin also made our Best Fine & Studio Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, coming in at #4.

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Out of the 3 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. University of Oklahoma is a very large public school located in the midsize suburb of Norman.

University of Oklahoma graduate students pay an average of $23,876 in tuition and fees each year.

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#3

Rice University

Houston, TX

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Houston, Rice is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Rice are $49,941 a year.

Rice not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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Best Fine & Studio Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best fine and studio arts colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,939
Arizona 479
Oklahoma 234
New Mexico 155

One of 10 majors within the area of study, fine and studio arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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