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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools in North Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Visual & Performing Arts is the 116th most popular major in the country with 6,355 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,134 and had an average of $26,019 in loans still to pay off.
Across North Carolina, there were 73 general visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,487 and $23,250 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 2 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.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Visual Arts Schools in North Carolina” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
Best Value Visual Arts Schools in North Carolina
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools in North Carolina.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Asheville. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools in North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Asheville is located in Asheville, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 43 ’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.
UNCA also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UNCA is $12,551 for North Carolina Visual Arts students.
Read more about General Visual & Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Asheville
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina Central University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 9 ’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.
North Carolina Central University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in North Carolina” list. It costs about $14,332 for North Carolina Visual Arts students per year to attend North Carolina Central University.
Full North Carolina Central University General Visual & Performing Arts Report
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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
- *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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