2025 Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Missouri
3Colleges in Missouri
126Visual Arts Degrees Awarded
$27,435Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in general visual & performing arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #116 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of general visual & performing arts. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 126 degrees in general visual & performing arts annually.
Choosing a Great General Visual & Performing Arts School
Your choice of general visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Visual & Performing Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your General Visual & Performing Arts Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Visual & Performing Arts Schools in Missouri list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Visual & Performing Arts in Missouri
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the visual arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's hard to beat University of Missouri - Columbia if you want to pursue a degree in general visual & performing arts. Mizzou is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #131 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were approximately 46 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the general visual & performing arts degree program at University of Missouri - Columbia earn $2,340 more than the typical college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Missouri State University - Springfield is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general visual & performing arts. Located in the city of Springfield, Missouri State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 16 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent year we have data available.
Southeast Missouri State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general visual & performing arts. Located in the small city of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri State University is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were roughly 49 general visual & performing arts students who graduated with this degree at Southeast Missouri State University in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, visual arts degree recipients generally make an average of $26,668 in their early careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of general visual & performing arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Visual & Performing Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
