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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

9 Colleges
$22,261 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$32,741 Avg Salary

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

With 493 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, visual and performing arts is the #11 most popular major in Maryland.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Value Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in Maryland to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 9 schools in Maryland to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for visual and performing arts students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland

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

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Visual & Performing Arts

#1

Goucher College

Baltimore, MD

Our analysis found Goucher College to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Maryland. Goucher is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Baltimore.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Goucher are $9,765 per year.

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#2

Hood College

Frederick, MD

Out of the 9 schools in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Hood College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Frederick, Hood is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Hood are $9,080 per year.

Hood also took the #4 spot in our Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland rankings.

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#3

Towson University

Towson, MD

The excellent master’s degree programs at Towson University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in Maryland. Located in the small city of Towson, Towson is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Towson are $11,034 per year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Maryland - Baltimore County helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in Maryland. Located in the large suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UMBC are $14,814 a year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Maryland - College Park helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value visual and performing arts schools in Maryland. Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UMCP graduate students pay an average of $16,995 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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

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#6

Morgan State University

Baltimore, MD

Morgan State University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Morgan State is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Morgan State graduate students pay an average of $9,657 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#7

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

University of Baltimore landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree visual and performing arts programs. UB is a small public school located in the city of Baltimore.

UB graduate students pay an average of $15,764 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#8

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

Johns Hopkins graduate students pay an average of $61,202 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Johns Hopkins also took the #1 spot in our Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland rankings.

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Maryland Institute College of Art ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland list. Located in the city of Baltimore, MICA is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

MICA graduate students pay an average of $52,040 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 3,135
Pennsylvania 745
New Jersey 187
District of Columbia 192
Delaware 34

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 9 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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