2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
With 155,377 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, visual and performing arts is the 10th most popular major in the United States. 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.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 20,693 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate” ranking analyzed 206 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality visual and performing arts programs that also have a lower cost than 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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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
Top 25 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Madison Area Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate. Madison Area Technical College is a public institution located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 102 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Madison College also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #8. It costs about $9,904 for associate degree visual & performing arts students per year to attend Madison College.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alexandria Technical & Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. ATCC is a small school located in Alexandria, Minnesota that handed out 32 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at ATCC, the school also landed the #17 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend ATCC is $13,550 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Tyler Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. John Tyler Community College is located in Chester, Virginia and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 44 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
John Tyler Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for John Tyler Community College is $6,810 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Collin County Community College District. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate. McKinney, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 90 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our associate degree visual & performing arts students list, Collin County Community College District has also earned the #23 rank in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Collin County Community College District is $6,293 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Holyoke Community College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate. This small school is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and it awarded 20 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Holyoke Community College also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #11. The estimated yearly cost for Holyoke Community College is $7,718 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.
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With a ranking of #6, LDS Business College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. LDS Business College is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 43 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
The yearly cost to attend LDS Business College is $7,832 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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Valencia College ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. This large school is located in Orlando, Florida, and it awarded 119 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Valencia College also took the #12 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Valencia College is $5,205 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.
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San Jacinto Community College landed the #8 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. San Jacinto College is a public institution located in Pasadena, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 117 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
San Jacinto College also claimed a top spot on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category. The estimated yearly cost for San Jacinto Community College is $8,692 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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With a ranking of #9, Metropolitan Community College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. Metropolitan Community College is located in Omaha, Nebraska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 76 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
The yearly cost to attend MCC is $4,295 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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Fox Valley Technical College landed the #10 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Fox Valley Technical College is located in Appleton, Wisconsin and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 45 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.
On top of its placing in this ranking, FVTC also did well on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category. The yearly cost to attend Fox Valley Technical College is $11,127 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
With a ranking of #11, Borough of Manhattan Community College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. Located in New York, New York, this large public school handed out 151 degrees to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at BMCC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Borough of Manhattan Community College is $5,158 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
Western Technical College landed the #12 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Located in La Crosse, Wisconsin, this small public school awarded 42 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2019-2020.
Western Technical College also claimed a top spot on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in that analysis. It costs about $10,081 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students per year to attend Western Technical College.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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Delta College did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking, coming in at #13. This medium-sized school is located in University Center, Michigan, and it awarded 10 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Delta College also claimed a top spot on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $3,629 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students per year to attend Delta College.
Scottsdale Community College landed the #14 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Scottsdale Community College is a medium-sized school located in Scottsdale, Arizona that handed out 93 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Scottsdale Community College excels when it comes to visual and performing arts quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Scottsdale Community College is $10,397 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.
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Northern Virginia Community College ranked #15 on this year’s Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. Northern Virginia Community College is a large public school situated in Annandale, Virginia. It awarded 170 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
Northern Virginia Community College also took the #20 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Virginia Community College is $10,005 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.
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Brigham Young University - Idaho landed the #16 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Brigham Young University - Idaho is a large school located in Rexburg, Idaho that handed out 2 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend BYU - I is $7,167 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
The low student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Brigham Young University - Idaho Visual & Performing Arts Report
Moraine Park Technical College landed the #17 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Moraine Park Technical College is a small school located in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin that handed out 21 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend Moraine Park Technical College is $9,143 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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Queensborough Community College landed the #18 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Located in Bayside, New York, this fairly large public school handed out 171 degrees to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2019-2020.
QCC also took the #5 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Queensborough Community College is $5,050 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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Austin Community College District landed the #19 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 279 students in 2019-2020.
Austin Community College District did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #10 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Austin Community College District is $6,861 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.
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Waukesha County Technical College came in at #20 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Waukesha County Technical College is a medium-sized school located in Pewaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 28 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
It costs about $10,165 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students per year to attend WCTC.
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North Hennepin Community College landed the #21 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. North Hennepin Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. It awarded 18 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend North Hennepin Community College is $10,284 for Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.
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County College of Morris came in at #22 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. County College of Morris is a medium-sized public school situated in Randolph, New Jersey. It awarded 93 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.
County College of Morris not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #9 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $9,173 for associate degree visual & performing arts students per year to attend County College of Morris.
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Chattahoochee Technical College landed the #23 spot on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate ranking. Marietta, Georgia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 45 students in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for Chattahoochee Technical College is $1,137 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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With a ranking of #24, Oakland Community College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. Oakland Community College is a public institution located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 46 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for Oakland Community College is $2,825 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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With a ranking of #25, Macomb Community College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate list. Located in Warren, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 47 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for Macomb Community College is $8,724 for associate degree visual & performing arts students.
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Not only did these schools make the top 31 list, but they also landed in the top 15% of this year’s ranking:
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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%.
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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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