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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,742 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,822 Avg Salary

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

Visual & Performing Arts is the #20 most popular major in Alabama with 86 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Alabama 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama

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

Best Alabama Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Visual & Performing Arts

Our analysis found University of North Alabama to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Alabama. UNA is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Florence.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNA are $7,140 a year.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of North Alabama

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Auburn University at Montgomery helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in Alabama. Located in the medium-sized city of Montgomery, AUM is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

AUM graduate students pay an average of $8,344 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value 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
North Carolina 274
Georgia 670
West Virginia 50
Louisiana 163
South Carolina 116
Kentucky 127
Arkansas 80

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.

  • 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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