2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Plains States Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
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.
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 Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Plains States Region 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. 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.
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2023 Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for visual arts majors pursuing a .
Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality in General Visual & Performing Arts
Our analysis found Missouri State University - Springfield to be the best value school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a degree in the Plains States Region . Missouri State is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Springfield.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Missouri State are $16,498 a year.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Iowa is a great value for general visual and performing arts students. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Iowa are $31,905 per year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Iowa also did well on our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Iowa State University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Plains States Region list. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Ames.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Iowa State are $25,446 per year.
Iowa State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Plains States Region list.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minneapolis College of Art and Design landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Minneapolis, MCAD is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
MCAD undergraduate students pay an average of $41,794 in tuition and fees each year.
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Best General Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State
Explore the best general visual and performing arts schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Missouri | 3 |
| Minnesota | 17 |
| Iowa | 8 |
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Majors Related to Visual Arts
General Visual & Performing Arts is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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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