2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts School for You

With 9 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general visual and performing arts is the #190 most popular major in Illinois.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges.

Best General Visual & Performing Arts School

#1

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

9 Degrees

$50,623 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named School of the Art Institute of Chicago the best value school in Illinois for general visual and performing arts students. Located in the large city of Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago undergraduate students pay an average of $50,623 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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