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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$22,832 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$30,183 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts School for You

General Visual & Performing Arts is the #131 most popular major in Tennessee with 57 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Tennessee ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value programs for visual arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for visual arts majors pursuing a .

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality in General Visual & Performing Arts

$9,912 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Tennessee - Martin the best value school in Tennessee for general visual and performing arts students. Located in the town of Martin, UT Martin is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

UT Martin undergraduate students pay an average of $9,912 in in-state tuition and fees each year. While working on their degree, visual arts majors at UT Martin accumulate an average of around $19,350 in student debt.

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#2

Lipscomb University

Nashville, TN
$35,752 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Lipscomb University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Tennessee list. Lipscomb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashville.

Lipscomb undergraduate students pay an average of $35,752 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Lipscomb not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Tennessee list.

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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
North Carolina 73
Florida 945
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 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.

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