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Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$24,736 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,487 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts School for You

In 2020-2021, 73 degrees and certificates were awarded to general visual and performing arts students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #164 most popular major in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

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 Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to see which 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in General Visual & Performing Arts

$7,319 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Asheville the best value school in North Carolina for general visual and performing arts students. UNCA is a small public school located in the city of Asheville.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNCA are $7,319 per year. Visual Arts majors at UNCA take out an average of $23,250 in student loans while working on their egree.

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$6,644 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend North Carolina Central University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina list. North Carolina Central University is a medium-sized public school located in the large city of Durham.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at North Carolina Central University are $6,644 per year.

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#3

Duke University

Durham, NC
$60,244 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Duke University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best general visual and performing arts schools in North Carolina. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Duke are $60,244 a year.

Duke also took the #1 spot in our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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

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

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 90
Virginia 255
Florida 945
Tennessee 57
Kentucky 52
South Carolina 19
Louisiana 39
Arkansas 5
Alabama 4
Mississippi 156
West Virginia 23

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 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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