2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate School for You
In 2020-2021, 37,413 people earned a degree or certificate in fine and studio arts, making the major the #32 most popular in the United States.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 16 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for Fine Arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Top 10 Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools
Our analysis found Hood College to be the best value school for fine and studio arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the city of Frederick, Hood is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Hood graduate students pay an average of $9,080 in tuition and fees each year.
In addition to its great value ranking, Hood is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Lindenwood University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Saint Charles.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Lindenwood University are $9,784 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the large city of Madison.
UW - Madison graduate students pay an average of $25,501 in tuition and fees each year.
In addition to its great value ranking, UW - Madison is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list.
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Out of the 16 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, California State University - Long Beach landed the # 4 spot on the list. CSULB is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Long Beach.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at CSULB are $17,784 a year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Tulsa. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. University of Tulsa is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Tulsa.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Tulsa are $25,182 per year.
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University of North Alabama came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. UNA is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Florence.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNA are $13,860 per year.
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Buffalo State landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate fine and studio arts programs. Located in the city of Buffalo, Buffalo State is a public school with a medium-sized student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Buffalo State are $24,042 a year.
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With a ranking of #8, Columbia University in the City of New York did quite well on this year’s best value schools for fine and studio arts students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 per year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Columbia also did well on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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George Mason University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for fine and studio arts students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public college with a fairly large student population.
GMU graduate students pay an average of $37,956 in tuition and fees each year.
GMU also claimed a spot on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.
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New York Academy of Art came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. Located in the city of New York, New York Academy of Art is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at New York Academy of Art are $41,366 a year.
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Fine & Studio Arts Related Majors for Fine Arts
Fine & Studio Arts is one of 10 different types of programs to choose from.
Majors Similar to Fine Arts
| 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 16 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.
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