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Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$17,698 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, general visual and performing arts was ranked #119 in the country. In fact 6,355 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones offered the best value doctor's 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.

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in General Visual & Performing Arts

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

Our 2023 rankings named Texas Tech University the best value school in the Southwest Region for general visual and performing arts students working on their doctor’s degree. Texas Tech is a very large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at Dallas helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general visual and performing arts schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the midsize city of Richardson, UT Dallas is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UT Dallas are $29,252 a year.

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Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best general visual and performing arts colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 593
Arizona 138
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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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