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Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$31,012 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.

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 General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate School

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Our analysis found University of Iowa to be the best value school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Iowa are $31,012 per year.

Iowa excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list.

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Southwest
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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 values are for the top school 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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