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Most Popular General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

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2023 Most Popular General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

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$39,171 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree 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.

The Most Popular General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to see which master's degree programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the General Visual & Performing Arts program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular General Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Colleges.

Our analysis found Minneapolis College of Art and Design to be the most popular school for general visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Plains States Region . Located in the large city of Minneapolis, MCAD is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Of the 17 students majoring in visual arts at MCAD, 24% are male and 76% are female.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Iowa State University is a great place for general visual and performing arts students working on their master’s degree. Iowa State is a very large public school located in the city of Ames.

About 40% of the students majoring in visual arts at the school are women while 60% are male.

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Out of the 3 schools in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri State University - Springfield landed the # 3 spot on the list. Missouri State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Springfield.

Women make up 67% of the visual arts majors at the school.

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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 Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 3
Minnesota 17
Iowa 8

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

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 3 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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