2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Washington

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Washington” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Washington, there were 2,061 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 264 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,441 and $15,677 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Washington” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in visual and performing arts. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Washington” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Washington

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

Top 4 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Washington

#1

Clover Park Technical College

Lakewood, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$7,904 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clover Park Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Washington list. Lakewood, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 24 students in 2019-2020.

CPTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Washington” list. It costs about $7,904 for Washington Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students per year to attend Clover Park Technical College.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Clover Park Technical College

#2

Bellevue College

Bellevue, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$7,870 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bellevue College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Washington. BC is a public institution located in Bellevue, Washington. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 33 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

BC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Washington” ranking. The yearly cost to attend BC is $7,870 for Washington Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.

Full BC Visual & Performing Arts Report

#3

Spokane Falls Community College

Spokane, Washington

#4 in overall quality

$6,763 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Spokane Falls Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Washington list. This small school is located in Spokane, Washington, and it awarded 38 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Spokane Falls Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Washington” list. It costs about $6,763 for Washington Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students per year to attend Spokane Falls Community College.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at Spokane Falls Community College

#4

Lake Washington Institute of Technology

Kirkland, Washington

#3 in overall quality

$7,713 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lake Washington Institute of Technology. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Washington. Located in Kirkland, Washington, this small public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s visual and performing arts students in 2019-2020.

LWTech also took the #3 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Washington” ranking. The yearly cost to attend LWTech is $7,713 for Washington Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at LWTech

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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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