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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Virginia

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$15,970 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,529 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts 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.

The Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Virginia to see which ones offered the best value programs for visual arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for visual arts majors pursuing a .

Best Virginia Schools for Affordable Quality in General Visual & Performing Arts

#1

Regent University

Virginia Beach, VA
$18,820 Average Tuition & Fees

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

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Regent are $18,820 a year.

Full General Visual & Performing Arts at Regent University Report

#2

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA
$13,119 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent 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 very large public school located in the suburb of Fairfax.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at GMU are $13,119 per year.

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

Read full report on General Visual & Performing Arts at George Mason University

Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value 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.

  • 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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