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Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Arizona

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Arizona

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$9,856 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$20,797 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree School for You

General Visual & Performing Arts is the #119 most popular major in Arizona with 138 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Arizona ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Arizona to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for visual 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.

Best Arizona Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in General Visual & Performing Arts

Our 2023 rankings named Pima Community College the best value school in Arizona for general visual and performing arts students working on their associate degree. Pima County Community College District is a large public school located in the large city of Tucson.

Pima County Community College District undergraduate students pay an average of $2,250 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Visual Arts majors at Pima County Community College District take out an average of $12,735 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

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Out of the 2 schools in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Advancing Technology landed the # 2 spot on the list. University of Advancing Technology is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the midsize city of Tempe.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at University of Advancing Technology are $17,461 per year.

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Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 593
Oklahoma 29
New Mexico 67

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

Majors Similar to Visual Arts

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 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 Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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