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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$14,182 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,822 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, visual and performing arts students earned 1,360 degrees and certificates from a South Carolina school, making the subject the 10th in the state.

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.

The Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina 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 South Carolina 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. 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 South Carolina

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

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

#1

College of Charleston

Charleston, SC

Our 2023 rankings named College of Charleston the best value school in South Carolina for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. C of C is a large public school located in the midsize city of Charleston.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at C of C are $14,230 per year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of South Carolina - Columbia is a great value for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. UofSC is a very large public school located in the city of Columbia.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UofSC are $14,134 per year.

UofSC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina list.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

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

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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