2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 3,337 people earned their degree in visual and performing arts, making the major the 217th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 327 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 118 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the 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.

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The visual arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Pima Community College

Tucson, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$2,574 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pima Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Pima Community College is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 37 associates’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

Pima County Community College District did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Pima Community College is $2,574 for southwest region associate degree visual arts students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Pima Community College Visual & Performing Arts Report

#2

San Jacinto Community College

Pasadena, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$8,232 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Jacinto Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. San Jacinto Community College is located in Pasadena, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 78 associates’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

San Jacinto College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $8,232 for southwest region associate degree visual arts students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend San Jacinto College.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at San Jacinto College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (Income $0-$30k)

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sven Mandel / CC-BY-SA-4.0.

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