The main focus area for this major is Digital Arts. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
General Visual & Performing Arts is a major offered under the visual and performing arts program of study at University of Missouri - Columbia. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in visual arts, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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If you're having trouble deciding which school is best for you, you may want to check out our many college rankings. Mizzou was ranked #17 on College Factual's most recent list of the best schools for visual arts majors. This puts the bachelor's program at the school solidly in the top 15% of all colleges and universities in the country. It is also ranked #1 in Missouri.
Here are some of the other rankings for Mizzou.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at Mizzou was $920 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $311 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $9,330 | $27,612 |
Fees | $1,393 | $1,393 |
Books and Supplies | $1,032 | $1,032 |
On Campus Room and Board | $10,668 | $10,668 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $5,288 | $5,288 |
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You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Mizzou in Visual Arts walked away with an average of $29,479 in student debt. That is 8% higher than the national average of $27,375.
Mizzou does not offer an online option for its visual arts bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Mizzou Online Learning page.
Women made up around 49.1% of the visual arts students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 58.0%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in visual arts at Mizzou in 2019-2020, 20.0% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 40%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 8 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 44 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
General Visual & Performing Arts students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Digital Arts | 55 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to general visual and performing arts.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Drama & Theater Arts | 11 |
Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 21 |
Fine & Studio Arts | 37 |
Music | 23 |
View All General Visual & Performing Arts Related Majors >
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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