2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 6,355 people earned a degree or certificate in general visual and performing arts, making the major the #119 most popular in the United States.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.
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 Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the United States to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for visual 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. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in General Visual & Performing Arts
Our 2023 rankings named Texas Tech University the best value school in the United States for general visual and performing arts students working on their doctor’s degree. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $17,698 per year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools list. OHIO Athens is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Athens.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at OHIO Athens are $17,712 per year.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at Dallas helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general visual and performing arts schools in the United States. Located in the midsize city of Richardson, UT Dallas is a public college with a fairly large student population.
UT Dallas graduate students pay an average of $29,252 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public school with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UCSD are $28,666 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the small city of Troy, RPI is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at RPI are $60,026 a year.
In addition to its great value ranking, RPI is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
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Majors Related to Visual Arts
One of 10 majors within the area of study, general visual and performing arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 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 Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.
More about our data sources and methodologies.