2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Mississippi

a bachelor's degree in visual & performing arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #9 out of 38 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Mississippi ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 393 bachelor's degrees in visual & performing arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Visual & Performing Arts School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The visual & performing arts bachelor's 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to visual & performing arts students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other visual & performing arts students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for visual & performing arts to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized visual & performing arts related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for visual & performing arts students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Visual & Performing Arts Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Mississippi list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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 when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Visual & Performing Arts in Mississippi

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for visual & performing arts students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Mississippi Schools for a Bachelor's in Visual & Performing Arts

1

Delta State University
Cleveland, MS

29 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in visual & performing arts needs to check out Delta State University. Located in the remote town of Cleveland, Delta State University is a public university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in visual & performing arts from Delta State University

2

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS

56 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in visual & performing arts has to look into Mississippi State University. Mississippi State is a fairly large public university located in the remote town of Mississippi State.More information about a bachelor’s in visual & performing arts from Mississippi State University

3

University of Mississippi
University, MS

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

52 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in visual & performing arts needs to take a look at University of Mississippi. Located in the remote town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in visual & performing arts from University of Mississippi

4

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

120 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Southern Mississippi if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in visual & performing arts. Southern Miss is a fairly large public university located in the city of Hattiesburg.More information about a bachelor’s in visual & performing arts from University of Southern Mississippi

5

Belhaven University
Jackson, MS

40 Annual Graduates

Belhaven is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Jackson.More information about a bachelor’s in visual & performing arts from Belhaven University

Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Visual & Performing Arts Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
North Carolina	34	2,522
Florida	34	5,296
Virginia	34	2,570
Alabama	33	1,019
Georgia	33	3,360
West Virginia	32	347
Tennessee	32	2,286
South Carolina	32	1,157
Kentucky	31	894
Louisiana	31	928
Arkansas	30	723

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Visual & Performing Arts Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
General Visual & Performing Arts	104
Music	97
Fine & Studio Arts	69
Drama & Theater Arts	52
Design & Applied Arts	30
Dance	23
Arts & Media Management	12
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	6

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bonnielou2013. More about our data sources and methodologies.