2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 149,215 visual and performing arts students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #10 most popular in the country.
With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 24 schools in the Southeast Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for visual and performing arts students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Top 10 Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Liberty University to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Southeast Region . Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Lynchburg.
Liberty University graduate students pay an average of $8,360 in tuition and fees each year.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Southern Mississippi is a great value for visual and performing arts students working on their doctor’s degree. Southern Miss is a large public school located in the small city of Hattiesburg.
Southern Miss graduate students pay an average of $11,204 in tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Memphis helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in the Southeast Region . UofM is a fairly large public school located in the city of Memphis.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UofM are $14,544 per year.
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Out of the 24 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, James Madison University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Harrisonburg, JMU is a public school with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at JMU are $29,746 a year.
JMU also claimed a spot on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Emory University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in the Southeast Region . Located in the city of Atlanta, Emory is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Emory are $45,684 per year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Emory also is in the top 15% of our Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking.
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With a ranking of #6, Florida State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for visual and performing arts students working on their doctor’s degree. Florida State is a very large public school located in the city of Tallahassee.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Florida State are $26,707 per year.
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University of Virginia - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for visual and performing arts students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. University of Virginia is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Charlottesville.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Virginia are $33,520 per year.
University of Virginia also took the #3 spot in our Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region rankings.
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Duke University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for visual and performing arts students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Duke are $59,141 a year.
Duke also made our Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, coming in at #5.
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University of Florida ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the city of Gainesville, UF is a public college with a very large student population.
UF graduate students pay an average of $30,130 in tuition and fees each year.
UF excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list.
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Auburn University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Auburn is a very large public school located in the small city of Auburn.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Auburn are $31,986 per year.
In addition to its great value ranking, Auburn is in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list.
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Explore the best visual and performing arts schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| North Carolina | 3,215 |
| West Virginia | 405 |
| Mississippi | 696 |
| South Carolina | 1,360 |
| Florida | 7,291 |
| Virginia | 3,471 |
| Arkansas | 830 |
| Alabama | 1,142 |
| Kentucky | 1,067 |
| Georgia | 4,322 |
| Tennessee | 2,629 |
| Louisiana | 1,147 |
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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 |
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 averages are for the top 24 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).
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