2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate 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. 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 in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This report analyzed 5 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region 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.
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 Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Fine & Studio Arts
Our 2023 rankings named Hood College the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for fine and studio arts students working on their graduate certificate. Hood is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Frederick.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Hood are $9,080 a year.
Hood excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Buffalo State landed the # 2 spot on the list. Buffalo State is a moderately-sized public school located in the large city of Buffalo.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Buffalo State are $24,042 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Columbia University in the City of New York. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 per year.
Columbia excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York Academy of Art. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. New York Academy of Art is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York.
New York Academy of Art graduate students pay an average of $41,366 in tuition and fees each year.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, PAFA is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
PAFA graduate students pay an average of $41,356 in tuition and fees each year.
Request InformationBest Fine & Studio Arts Colleges by State
Explore the best fine and studio arts schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 1,161 |
| New York | 3,302 |
| Maryland | 623 |
| New Jersey | 765 |
| District of Columbia | 142 |
| Delaware | 58 |
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Majors Related to Fine Arts
One of 10 majors within the area of study, fine and studio arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 5 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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