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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

9 Colleges
$13,392 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$24,820 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts 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.

The Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 9 schools in North Carolina to see which 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.

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 Schools in North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Visual & Performing Arts

#1

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Our 2023 rankings named East Carolina University the best value school in North Carolina for visual and performing arts students. Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ECU are $7,297 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Western Carolina University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina list. WCU is a large public school located in the town of Cullowhee.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WCU are $4,367 per year.

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$8,941 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of North Carolina School of the Arts helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best visual and performing arts schools in North Carolina. UNCSA is a small public school located in the city of Winston-Salem.

UNCSA undergraduate students pay an average of $8,941 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina list. UNC Greensboro is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Greensboro.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UNC Greensboro are $7,468 a year.

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Out of the 9 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Appalachian State University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the town of Boone, Appalachian State is a public school with a very large student population.

Appalachian State undergraduate students pay an average of $7,410 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at Appalachian State University Report

North Carolina State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for visual and performing arts students. It came in at #6 on the list. NC State is a very large public school located in the city of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NC State are $9,131 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, NC State is ranked #4 for overall quality for visual and performing arts in North Carolina.

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With a ranking of #7, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did quite well on this year’s best value schools for visual and performing arts students. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public school located in the city of Chapel Hill.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNC Chapel Hill are $9,028 per year.

UNC Chapel Hill also took the #2 spot in our Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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North Carolina Central University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for visual and performing arts students. It came in at #8 on the list. North Carolina Central University is a moderately-sized public school located in the large city of Durham.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at North Carolina Central University are $6,644 a year.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at North Carolina Central University Report

#9

Duke University

Durham, NC
$60,244 Average Tuition & Fees

Duke University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina ranking. Duke is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Durham.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Duke are $60,244 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Duke is ranked #1 for overall quality for visual and performing arts in North Carolina.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools 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 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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