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Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Mississippi

2023 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Mississippi

3 Colleges
$20,668 Avg Salary
$29,041 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts School for You

General Visual & Performing Arts is the #49 most popular major in Mississippi with 156 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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 General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Mississippi ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Mississippi to see which programs offered the best educational experiences for students.

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2023 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for visual arts majors pursuing a .

Top Mississippi Schools in General Visual & Performing Arts

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, MS

Our 2023 rankings named Mississippi State University the best school in Mississippi for general visual and performing arts students. Located in the remote town of Mississippi State, Mississippi State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Visual Arts majors at Mississippi State take out an average of $28,750 in student loans while working on their egree.

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The excellent programs at University of Southern Mississippi helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best general visual and performing arts schools in Mississippi. Located in the city of Hattiesburg, Southern Miss is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Mississippi University for Women. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Mississippi list. MUW is a small public school located in the town of Columbus.

The average amount in student loans that visual arts majors at MUW take out is $27,373.

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Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 90
Virginia 255
North Carolina 73
Florida 945
Tennessee 57
Kentucky 52
South Carolina 19
Louisiana 39
Arkansas 5
Alabama 4
West Virginia 23

One of 10 majors within the area of study, general visual and performing arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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