2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina

If you plan on getting your master's degree in visual & performing arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #10 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 90 master's degrees in visual & performing arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on visual & performing arts students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of visual & performing arts students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt visual & performing arts students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized visual & performing arts related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for visual & performing arts students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Visual & Performing Arts Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Visual & Performing Arts in South Carolina

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in visual & performing arts.

Top South Carolina Schools for a Master's in Visual & Performing Arts

1

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

36 Annual Graduates

University of South Carolina - Columbia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in visual & performing arts. UofSC is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia.More information about a master’s in visual & performing arts from University of South Carolina - Columbia

2

Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

Winthrop University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a master's degree in visual & performing arts. Located in the city of Rock Hill, Winthrop is a public university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in visual & performing arts from Winthrop University

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Mississippi	34	76
Florida	34	893
Virginia	33	468
Georgia	32	630
Tennessee	32	142
North Carolina	31	231
Kentucky	31	101
West Virginia	30	34
Alabama	30	72
Louisiana	30	144
Arkansas	30	71

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Music	30
Fine & Studio Arts	20
Arts & Media Management	16
Design & Applied Arts	12
Drama & Theater Arts	8
General Visual & Performing Arts	2
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	2

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bonnielou2013. More about our data sources and methodologies.