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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$40,031 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$24,172 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts 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.

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 General Visual & Performing Arts 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 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for visual 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.

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in General Visual & Performing Arts

$22,810 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Ohio University - Athens Campus to be the best value school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . OHIO Athens is a very large public school located in the distant town of Athens.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at OHIO Athens are $22,810 a year.

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$32,101 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. IUPUI is a fairly large public school located in the city of Indianapolis.

IUPUI undergraduate students pay an average of $32,101 in tuition and fees each year.

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$37,370 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Columbus College of Art and Design is a great value for general visual and performing arts students. CCAD is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Columbus.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at CCAD are $37,370 a year.

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$50,623 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at School of the Art Institute of Chicago are $50,623 per year.

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Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 0
Illinois 9
Ohio 18
Indiana 9
Wisconsin 0

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

Majors Similar to Visual Arts

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 4 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 Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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