2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region
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General Visual & Performing Arts is the 125th most popular major in the country with 6,359 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $24,577 and had an average of $26,968 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,781 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,346 and $29,676 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 209 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in general visual and performing arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general visual and performing arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.
Top 5 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Visual & Performing Arts in the Southeast Region
Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Virginia Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Northern Virginia Community College is a large school located in Annandale, Virginia that handed out 36 associates’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Northern Virginia Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Virginia Community College is $10,005 for southeast region associate degree visual arts students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend NorthWest Arkansas Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Bentonville, Arkansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual arts degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree visual arts students list, NWACC has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $6,574 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Visual Arts students per year to attend NorthWest Arkansas Community College.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baton Rouge Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.
BRCC also took the #3 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for BRCC is $9,111 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Visual Arts students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Nossi College of Art. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Nossi College of Art is located in Madison, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 associates’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
Nossi College of Art also made our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for Nossi College of Art is $21,995 for southeast region associate degree visual arts students.
The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Full Sail University landed the #5 spot on the list. Full Sail University is a large school located in Winter Park, Florida that handed out 84 associates’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Full Sail University also took the #4 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $27,524 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Visual Arts students per year to attend Full Sail University.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
Footnotes
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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