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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$9,696 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,100 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 3,215 degrees and certificates were awarded to visual and performing arts students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #13 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to see which undergraduate 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.

2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Visual & Performing Arts

Our analysis found Central Piedmont Community College to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in North Carolina. Central Piedmont Community College is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

Central Piedmont Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $2,792 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Central Piedmont Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Central Piedmont Community College

#2

Living Arts College

Raleigh, NC

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Living Arts College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the large city of Raleigh, Living Arts College is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

Living Arts College undergraduate students pay an average of $16,600 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Living Arts College also took the #5 spot in our Best Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina rankings.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at Living Arts College Report

Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
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

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 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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