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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

18 Colleges
$24,499 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,822 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 18 schools in the Southeast Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for visual and performing 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. 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.

2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

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

Top 10 Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

Our analysis found Liberty University to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southeast Region . Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Lynchburg.

Liberty University graduate students pay an average of $8,360 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Central Arkansas. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the city of Conway, UCA is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UCA graduate students pay an average of $11,835 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Alabama. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the city of Florence, UNA is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNA are $13,860 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbus State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the midsize city of Columbus, CSU is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at CSU are $13,264 a year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of North Carolina School of the Arts 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 medium-sized city of Winston-Salem, UNCSA is a public school with a small student population.

UNCSA graduate students pay an average of $26,343 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Florida International University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. FIU is a very large public school located in the suburb of Miami.

FIU graduate students pay an average of $24,211 in tuition and fees each year.

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The University of Tennessee - Knoxville ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Knoxville are $31,798 per year.

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With a ranking of #8, University of South Carolina - Columbia did quite well on this year’s best value schools for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. UofSC is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Columbia.

UofSC graduate students pay an average of $30,160 in tuition and fees each year.

UofSC also claimed a spot on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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#9

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

University of Kentucky landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate visual and performing arts programs. UK is a very large public school located in the large city of Lexington.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UK are $33,548 per year.

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate visual and performing arts programs. Located in the city of Greensboro, UNC Greensboro is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UNC Greensboro graduate students pay an average of $21,983 in tuition and fees each year.

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Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best visual and performing arts colleges for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 3,215
West Virginia 405
South Carolina 1,360
Florida 7,291
Virginia 3,471
Arkansas 830
Mississippi 696
Louisiana 1,147
Alabama 1,142
Kentucky 1,067
Georgia 4,322
Tennessee 2,629

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 18 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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