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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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10 Colleges
$46,176 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,822 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate School for You

Visual & Performing Arts is the #11 most popular major in the country with 18,379 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 10 schools in the New England Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for visual and performing arts students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Check out the visual and performing arts graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named University of Connecticut the best value school in the New England Region for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 a year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Massachusetts College of Art and Design helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in the New England Region . Massachusetts College of Art and Design is a small public school located in the large city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Massachusetts College of Art and Design are $24,000 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the suburb of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UMass Amherst are $32,809 a year.

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Yale University

New Haven, CT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Yale are $45,700 a year.

Yale excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list.

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#5

Tufts University

Medford, MA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Tufts is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Medford.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Tufts are $55,216 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Tufts is ranked #2 for overall quality for visual and performing arts in the New England Region .

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With a ranking of #6, Longy School of Music of Bard College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. Longy is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Longy are $48,800 per year.

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With a ranking of #7, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth did quite well on this year’s best value schools for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the midsize suburb of North Dartmouth, UMass Dartmouth is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMass Dartmouth are $30,153 per year.

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#8

Boston University

Boston, MA

Boston University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for visual and performing arts students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Boston U graduate students pay an average of $59,418 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Boston U is ranked #5 for overall quality for visual and performing arts in the New England Region .

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Berklee College of Music did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for visual and performing arts students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the large city of Boston, Berklee College of Music is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Berklee College of Music are $47,047 a year.

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The New England Conservatory of Music ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. The New England Conservatory of Music is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at The New England Conservatory of Music are $53,730 per year.

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Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best visual and performing arts colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 965
Rhode Island 54
Connecticut 395
New Hampshire 34
Maine 42
Vermont 73

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

Majors Similar to Visual & Performing Arts

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 10 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 Bonnielou2013.

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