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2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$46,266 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$25,628 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Undergraduate 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which undergraduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for Fine Arts students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Check out the Fine Arts undergraduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Fine & Studio Arts

Our 2023 rankings named Catholic University of America the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for fine and studio arts students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in the large city of Washington, CUA is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CUA are $52,156 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, CUA also is in the top 20% of our Best Fine & Studio Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.

Read full report on Fine & Studio Arts at Catholic University of America

Out of the 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Philadelphia, PAFA is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

PAFA undergraduate students pay an average of $40,376 in tuition and fees each year. Fine Arts majors at PAFA take out an average of $29,374 in student loans while working on their Undergraduate Certificate.

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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 Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 1,161
New York 3,302
Maryland 623
New Jersey 765
District of Columbia 142
Delaware 58

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 2 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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