2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Master's Degree 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.
The Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 31 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for Fine 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. 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.
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2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for Fine Arts majors pursuing a master's degree.
Top 10 Best Fine & Studio Arts Master's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Columbia College Chicago the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for fine and studio arts students working on their master’s degree. Columbia is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $2,350 per year.
The excellent master’s degree programs at Youngstown State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value fine and studio arts schools in the Great Lakes Region . Youngstown State University is a large public school located in the small city of Youngstown.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Youngstown State University are $6,931 a year.
Out of the 31 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Edwardsville, SIUE is a public school with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at SIUE are $9,316 per year.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at Ferris State University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value fine and studio arts schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the town of Big Rapids, Ferris is a public school with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Ferris are $8,232 per year.
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Out of the 31 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois State University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Illinois State are $11,773 a year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Illinois State also did well on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
With a ranking of #6, University of Saint Francis - Fort Wayne did quite well on this year’s best value schools for fine and studio arts students working on their master’s degree. University of St. Francis Fort Wayne is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Fort Wayne.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of St. Francis Fort Wayne are $12,418 a year.
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Eastern Illinois University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree fine and studio arts programs. EIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Charleston.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at EIU are $21,407 a year.
With a ranking of #8, Northern Illinois University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for fine and studio arts students working on their master’s degree. Located in the small suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public school with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NIU are $11,390 per year.
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Bradley University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Bradley is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Peoria.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Bradley are $17,400 a year.
With a ranking of #10, Indiana State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for fine and studio arts students working on their master’s degree. Located in the small city of Terre Haute, Indiana State is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Indiana State graduate students pay an average of $15,562 in tuition and fees each year.
Best Fine & Studio Arts Colleges by State
Explore the best fine and studio arts schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Michigan | 72 |
| Illinois | 274 |
| Ohio | 78 |
| Indiana | 44 |
| Wisconsin | 54 |
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Fine & Studio Arts Related Majors for Fine Arts
One of 9 majors within the area of study, fine and studio arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Fine Arts
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Music | 7,675 |
| Design & Applied Arts | 1,979 |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 1,704 |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 1,699 |
| Arts & Media Management | 1,184 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 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.
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