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Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$31,012 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate School for You

General Visual & Performing Arts is the #194 most popular major in the country with 390 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking.

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

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

Check out the visual arts graduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate School

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

Our analysis found University of Iowa to be the best value school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Plains States Region . Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Iowa are $31,012 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Iowa also did well on our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full General Visual & Performing Arts at University of Iowa Report

Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best general visual and performing arts colleges for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 3
Minnesota 17
Iowa 8

General Visual & Performing Arts is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.

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 values are for the top school 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 Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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