2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in District of Columbia (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid

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

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

#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 For Those Getting Aid 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 yearly cost to attend University of the District of Columbia is $15,894 for District of Columbia Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students with aid.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of the District of Columbia

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts (With Aid)

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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