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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Louisiana” 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 Louisiana, there were 1,270 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,327 and $23,095 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 71 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,892 and $18,805 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The visual & performing arts school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Louisiana”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

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

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Louisiana

#1

Delgado Community College

New Orleans, Louisiana

#2 in overall quality

$10,017 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delgado Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Louisiana. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s visual and performing arts degrees to 26 students in 2019-2020.

Delgado Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Louisiana” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Delgado Community College is $10,017 for Louisiana Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Delgado Community College

#2

Baton Rouge Community College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$9,111 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baton Rouge Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Schools for an Associate in Louisiana. This medium-sized school is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it awarded 19 associates’s visual and performing arts degrees in 2019-2020.

BRCC also made our “Best Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in Louisiana” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $9,111 for Louisiana Associate Degree Visual & Performing Arts students per year to attend BRCC.

Full BRCC Visual & Performing Arts Report

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts

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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