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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in West Virginia

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

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Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts School for You

Visual & Performing Arts is the #19 most popular major in West Virginia with 50 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in West Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges.

Best Visual & Performing Arts School

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

Our 2023 rankings named West Virginia University the best value school in West Virginia for visual and performing arts students. WVU is a very large public school located in the city of Morgantown.

WVU undergraduate students pay an average of $9,144 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

WVU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in West Virginia list.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at West Virginia University

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
North Carolina 274
Georgia 670
South Carolina 116
Louisiana 163
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 values are for the top school 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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