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2023 Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

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Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree School for You

With 274 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, visual and performing arts is the #19 most popular major in North Carolina.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best educational experiences for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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2023 Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Visual & Performing Arts Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Top North Carolina Schools for a Doctorate in Visual & Performing Arts

#1

Duke University

Durham, NC

Our 2023 rankings named Duke University the best school in North Carolina for visual and performing arts students working on their doctor’s degree. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Durham.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best visual and performing arts schools in North Carolina. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Chapel Hill.

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Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 88
Florida 995
Virginia 522
Tennessee 156
Georgia 670
South Carolina 116
Louisiana 163
West Virginia 50
Kentucky 127
Arkansas 80
Alabama 86

Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

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
Arts & Media Management 1,184
General Visual & Performing Arts 390
Dance 257
Other Visual Art 254
Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry 13

Related Major Annual Graduates
Theology & Religious Vocations 17,287
English Language & Literature 9,566
Foreign Languages & Linguistics 4,163
Philosophy & Religious Studies 3,136
Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities 2,680

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 Bonnielou2013.

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