2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate School for You

Fine & Studio Arts is the #67 most popular major in the country with 3,224 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for Fine Arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Check out the Fine Arts graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Fine & Studio Arts

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, WI

1 Graduate Certificates

#5 in Quality in the Great Lakes Region

$25,501 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Wisconsin - Madison the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for fine and studio arts students working on their graduate certificate. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the city of Madison.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UW - Madison are $25,501 a year.

UW - Madison did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Fine & Studio Arts at University of Wisconsin - Madison Report

#2

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

13 Graduate Certificates

$45,601 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, School of the Art Institute of Chicago landed the # 2 spot on the list. School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate students pay an average of $45,601 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Fine & Studio Arts at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Report

Best Fine & Studio Arts Colleges by State

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Fine & Studio Arts Related Majors for Fine Arts

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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 Jorge Royan.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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