2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, visual and performing arts students earned 5,502 degrees and certificates from an Illinois school, making the subject the 10th in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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 Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Illinois ranking.

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.

Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree School

Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Degrees Awarded
Indiana	2,306
Michigan	3,433
Ohio	4,641
Wisconsin	2,248

Visual & Performing Arts Related Majors for Visual & Performing Arts

Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

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
General Visual & Performing Arts	6,355
Arts & Media Management	4,788
Dance	3,288
Other Visual Art	912
Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry	119
Community/Environmental/Socially-Engaged Art	10

Majors Similar to Visual & Performing Arts

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities	556,813
English Language & Literature	54,635
Foreign Languages & Linguistics	33,333
Theology & Religious Vocations	27,459
Philosophy & Religious Studies	19,993

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 Bonnielou2013.

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