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2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$13,981 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$30,385 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts Master's Degree School for You

With 14 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, fine and studio arts is the #84 most popular major in South Carolina.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in South Carolina to see which ones offered the best value master's degree 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 Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for Fine Arts majors pursuing a master's degree.

Best South Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Fine & Studio Arts

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

Our 2023 rankings named Clemson University the best value school in South Carolina for fine and studio arts students working on their master’s degree. Clemson is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Clemson.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Clemson are $11,796 a year.

Clemson not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Fine & Studio Arts Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list.

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Out of the 3 schools in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Columbia, UofSC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UofSC is ranked #3 for overall quality for Fine Arts in South Carolina.

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#3

Winthrop University

Rock Hill, SC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Winthrop University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list. Winthrop is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Rock Hill.

Winthrop graduate students pay an average of $16,012 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 50
Florida 78
Georgia 98
North Carolina 60
Tennessee 24
Kentucky 16
Louisiana 36
Alabama 20
Mississippi 3
Arkansas 17
West Virginia 3

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 3 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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