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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$5,183 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,100 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 3,471 degrees and certificates were awarded to visual and performing arts students who went to a Virginia college or university. This makes it the #12 most popular major in the state.

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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Virginia ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Virginia 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.

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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for visual and performing arts majors pursuing a undergraduate certificate.

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

Our 2023 rankings named John Tyler Community College the best value school in Virginia for visual and performing arts students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in the large suburb of Chester, John Tyler Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at John Tyler Community College are $4,800 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, John Tyler Community College also is in the top 20% of our Best Visual & Performing Arts Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Virginia ranking.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Northern Virginia Community College is a great value for visual and performing arts students working on their undergraduate certificate. Northern Virginia Community College is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Annandale.

Northern Virginia Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,565 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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

Full Visual & Performing Arts at Northern Virginia Community 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
North Carolina 3,215
West Virginia 405
South Carolina 1,360
Florida 7,291
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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