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2023 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in Virginia

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$39,171 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree School for You

With 11 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general visual and performing arts is the #151 most popular major in Virginia.

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 General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Virginia to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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2023 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for visual arts majors pursuing a master's degree.

Top Virginia Schools for a Master's in General Visual & Performing Arts

#1

Regent University

Virginia Beach, VA

Our analysis found Regent University to be the best school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Virginia. Located in the large city of Virginia Beach, Regent is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

Full General Visual & Performing Arts at Regent University Report

#2

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA

The excellent master’s degree programs at George Mason University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best general visual and performing arts schools in Virginia. GMU is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Fairfax.

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Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 98
Tennessee 0
South Carolina 4
Mississippi 0
West Virginia 4

One of 9 majors within the area of study, general visual and performing arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Music 7,675
Fine & Studio Arts 3,224
Design & Applied Arts 1,979
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 1,704
Drama & Theater Arts 1,699

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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