2022 Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 214 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent visual and performing arts programs, but they also cost less that 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$25,295 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a large school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 8 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UWM also took the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee are $25,295, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

#2

Columbus College of Art and Design

Columbus, Ohio

#3 in overall quality

$37,370 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbus College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified masters’s visual arts students in 2019-2020.

CCAD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CCAD are $37,370, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at CCAD

#3

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$43,912 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Visual Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 9 masters’s visual arts degrees in 2019-2020.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at School of the Art Institute of Chicago are $43,912, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full School of the Art Institute of Chicago 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

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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