2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Visual & Performing Arts is the 217th most popular major in the country with 3,337 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 603 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree visual arts students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

#3 in overall quality

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.

WVU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at WVU are $26,154.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at WVU

#2

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$37,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. GMU is a large school located in Fairfax, Virginia that handed out 3 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

GMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at GMU are $37,410.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at GMU

#3

Regent University

Virginia Beach, Virginia

#4 in overall quality

$17,052 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Regent University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Regent is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It awarded 8 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Regent, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Regent are $17,052.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Regent University

#4

College of Charleston

Charleston, South Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$36,592 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Charleston. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. College of Charleston is located in Charleston, South Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 masters’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

C of C also took the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at C of C are $36,592, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at College of Charleston

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (With Aid)

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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