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2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Arizona

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$11,524 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$27,745 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Visual & Performing Arts School for You

With 254 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, visual and performing arts is the #15 most popular major in Arizona.

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.

The Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Arizona ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Arizona 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.

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 Schools in Arizona

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

Best Arizona Schools for Affordable Quality in Visual & Performing Arts

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ
$12,404 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Arizona to be the best value school for visual and performing arts students who want to pursue a degree in Arizona. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at University of Arizona are $12,404 a year.

University of Arizona also took the #3 spot in our Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Arizona rankings.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of Arizona

$10,818 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Skysong. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Arizona list. ASU - Skysong is a fairly large public school located in the city of Scottsdale.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at ASU - Skysong are $10,818 a year.

ASU - Skysong not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Arizona list.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at Arizona State University - Skysong Report

$11,527 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Northern Arizona University is a great value for visual and performing arts students. Located in the small city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public school with a very large student population.

NAU undergraduate students pay an average of $11,527 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at Northern Arizona University Report

$11,348 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the # 4 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Tempe.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at ASU - Tempe are $11,348 a year.

ASU - Tempe not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Arizona list.

Full Visual & Performing Arts at Arizona State University - Tempe Report

Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,011
Oklahoma 126
New Mexico 43

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 4 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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