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Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$27,120 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$39,171 Avg Salary

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

General Visual & Performing Arts is the #119 most popular major in the country with 6,355 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to see which master'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.

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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

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

Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in General Visual & Performing Arts

Our analysis found Missouri State University - Springfield to be the best value school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Plains States Region . Located in the city of Springfield, Missouri State is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Missouri State are $12,618 a year.

Full General Visual & Performing Arts at Missouri State University - Springfield Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Iowa State are $26,948 a year.

Iowa State also claimed a spot on our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Minneapolis College of Art and Design is a great value for general visual and performing arts students working on their master’s degree. MCAD is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Minneapolis.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at MCAD are $41,794 per year.

Full General Visual & Performing Arts at Minneapolis College of Art and Design Report

Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best general visual and performing arts schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 111
Minnesota 57
Kansas 84
Iowa 28
Nebraska 0
South Dakota 7

General Visual & Performing Arts is one of 10 different types of programs to choose from.

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 3 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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