General Visual & Performing Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #70 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of general visual & performing arts. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 256 associate degrees in general visual & performing arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Visual & Performing Arts School for Your Associate Degree
The visual arts associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general visual & performing arts students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general visual & performing arts students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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 general visual & performing arts students go into to obtain their associate 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 general visual & performing arts related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general visual & performing arts students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank General Visual & Performing Arts Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Visual & Performing Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in general visual & performing arts needs to look into Full Sail University. Located in the large suburb of Winter Park, Full Sail University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population.
After graduating, visual arts associate recipients usually earn about $27,720 in their early careers.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The visual arts associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
