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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Indiana

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,737 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,822 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate School for You

Visual & Performing Arts is the #13 most popular major in Indiana with 2,306 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. 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.

The Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Indiana ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Indiana to see which graduate certificate 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. 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 Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Indiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Indiana Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Visual & Performing Arts

#1

Ball State University

Muncie, IN

Our analysis found Ball State University to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Indiana. Ball State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Muncie.

Ball State graduate students pay an average of $10,144 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Ball State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Indiana list.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Ball State University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Indiana University - Bloomington. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Indiana list. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public college with a very large student population.

IU Bloomington graduate students pay an average of $11,329 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, IU Bloomington is ranked #3 for overall quality for visual and performing arts in Indiana.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at Indiana University - Bloomington Report

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
Michigan 3,433
Ohio 4,641
Illinois 5,502
Wisconsin 2,248

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

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 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 Bonnielou2013.

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