2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Southeast region, there were 603 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 90 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 looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in visual and performing arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great 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 visual and performing arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree visual arts students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Southeast Region

#1

Northern Virginia Community College

Annandale, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,005 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 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 public school situated in Annandale, Virginia. It awarded 36 associates’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Northern Virginia Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Virginia Community College is $10,005 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Visual Arts students.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Northern Virginia Community College

#2

NorthWest Arkansas Community College

Bentonville, Arkansas

#2 in overall quality

$6,574 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, NorthWest Arkansas Community College landed the #2 spot on the 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 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.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at NorthWest Arkansas Community College

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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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