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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Ohio

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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$21,298 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,822 Avg Salary

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

Out of the majors we analyze each year, visual and performing arts was ranked 9th in Ohio. In fact, 4,641 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Ohio ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Ohio 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.

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

Our analysis found Bowling Green State University - Main Campus to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Ohio. BGSU is a large public school located in the town of Bowling Green.

BGSU graduate students pay an average of $9,831 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Ohio University - Athens Campus is a great value for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the distant town of Athens, OHIO Athens is a public school with a very large student population.

OHIO Athens graduate students pay an average of $9,720 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in Ohio. UC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Cincinnati.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UC are $14,902 per year.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin, OH

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Oberlin College is a great value for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. Oberlin is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Oberlin.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Oberlin are $29,995 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Cleveland Institute of Music. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Ohio list. Located in the large city of Cleveland, Cleveland Institute of Music is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Cleveland Institute of Music are $42,040 a year.

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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
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

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 averages are for the top 5 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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