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2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Schools in Rhode Island

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$59,297 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$25,356 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fine & Studio Arts School for You

Fine & Studio Arts is the #34 most popular major in Rhode Island with 38 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Schools in Rhode Island

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

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality in Fine & Studio Arts

#1

Brown University

Providence, RI
$62,304 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Brown University to be the best value school for fine and studio arts students who want to pursue a degree in Rhode Island. Brown is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Providence.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Brown are $62,304 per year.

Brown also made our Best Fine & Studio Arts Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #1.

Full Fine & Studio Arts at Brown University Report

$56,290 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Rhode Island School of Design helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best fine and studio arts schools in Rhode Island. Located in the midsize city of Providence, RISD is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at RISD are $56,290 a year.

Full Fine & Studio Arts at Rhode Island School of Design Report

Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Colleges in the New England Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 169
Connecticut 70
New Hampshire 24
Maine 35
Vermont 19

Fine & Studio Arts is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.

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 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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