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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Pennsylvania

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$58,524 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$24,747 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts School for You

With 8 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general visual and performing arts is the #203 most popular major in Pennsylvania.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

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 Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

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

Best General Visual & Performing Arts School

#1

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA
$58,524 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Carnegie Mellon University to be the best value school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a degree in Pennsylvania. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie Mellon undergraduate students pay an average of $58,524 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Carnegie Mellon also took the #1 spot in our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Pennsylvania rankings.

Full General Visual & Performing Arts at Carnegie Mellon University Report

Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 30
Maryland 0
New Jersey 0

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 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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