2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in District of Columbia

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 & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Visual & Performing Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 155,377 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,427 and had an average of $28,377 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 546 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,177 and $36,354 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,233 and $27,625 respectively.

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.

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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in District of Columbia

#1

University of the District of Columbia

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$15,894 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. University of the District of Columbia is a small public school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 10 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

University of the District of Columbia also took the #1 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of the District of Columbia is $15,894 for District of Columbia Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University of the District of Columbia

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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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