2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Mississippi

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,130 people earned their degree in visual and performing arts, making the major the 221st most popular in the United States.

Across Mississippi, there were 151 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 51 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in visual and performing arts. That schools that top this list have a program in visual and performing arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Mississippi”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Mississippi

1

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

#13 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Mississippi list. This medium-sized school is located in Perkinston, Mississippi, and it awarded 46 associates’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Visual & Performing Arts Report

2

East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

#11 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Mississippi Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Mississippi. East Mississippi Community College is located in Scooba, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 associates’s visual arts degrees to qualified students.

Full EMCC Visual & Performing Arts Report

3

Coahoma Community College
Clarksdale, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coahoma Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Mississippi. Coahoma Community College is a public institution located in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Coahoma Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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