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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$14,182 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$42,822 Avg Salary

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

With 116 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, visual and performing arts is the #13 most popular major in South Carolina.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Carolina to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for visual and performing 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.

2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Colleges.

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

#1

College of Charleston

Charleston, SC

Our 2023 rankings named College of Charleston the best value school in South Carolina for visual and performing arts students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Charleston, C of C is a public college with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at C of C are $14,230 per year.

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Out of the 2 schools in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of Columbia, UofSC is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UofSC are $14,134 a year.

UofSC also made our Best Visual & Performing Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina list, coming in at #3.

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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
North Carolina 274
Virginia 522
Tennessee 156
Georgia 670
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.

  • 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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