Colleges Offering Design and Applied Arts

Compare program size, cost, selectivity, and institution-wide student outcomes.

Important context: earnings on this page are median outcomes for the school overall, not earnings for graduates of this specific major. Schools are ordered by that institution-wide figure.
40schools
4,737total graduates
$52,194avg school-wide 10yr earnings
#
School
School-wide Earnings
Net Price
Admit
Graduates
1

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

$84,648
$38,509
79.4%
110
2

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

$77,449
$28,928
81.0%
35
3

Art Center College of Design

Pasadena, CA

$71,958
$48,661
74.5%
198
4

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI

$68,140
$50,507
18.7%
101
5

Seattle Pacific University

Seattle, WA

$64,506
$24,488
83.4%
26
6

LIM College

New York, NY

$58,956
$38,667
95.9%
20
7

Albright College

Reading, PA

$58,700
$20,024
76.3%
30
8

Champlain College

Burlington, VT

$58,386
$35,860
82.9%
44
9

Otis College of Art and Design

Los Angeles, CA

$58,152
$51,248
81.8%
133
10

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA

$58,128
$23,433
92.6%
353
11

University of Wisconsin-Stout

Menomonie, WI

$58,084
$17,490
87.7%
142
12

Queens University of Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

$57,673
$30,857
62.1%
18
13

Juniata College

Huntingdon, PA

$56,918
$23,988
78.9%
9
14

Belmont University

Nashville, TN

$55,930
$33,147
95.3%
57
15

Cedarville University

Cedarville, OH

$55,443
$24,468
65.3%
34
16

University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, IN

$55,362
$18,196
96.0%
9
17

Pratt Institute-Main

Brooklyn, NY

$54,295
$52,659
73.3%
373
18

John Brown University

Siloam Springs, AR

$53,907
$20,397
76.1%
27
19

The New School

New York, NY

$52,901
$58,741
63.5%
472
20

Meredith College

Raleigh, NC

$51,539
$22,488
74.2%
27
21

Lesley University

Cambridge, MA

$51,173
$31,152
96.9%
49
22

Webster University

Saint Louis, MO

$50,876
$27,047
86.2%
26
23

University of Bridgeport

Bridgeport, CT

$50,323
$27,807
83.0%
3
24

Lasell University

Newton, MA

$49,705
$27,511
81.2%
27
25

CUNY New York City College of Technology

Brooklyn, NY

$49,365
$5,127
80.3%
94
26

Oklahoma Christian University

Edmond, OK

$49,203
$21,872
96.5%
22
27

School of Visual Arts

New York, NY

$46,459
$57,914
92.6%
300
28

Savannah College of Art and Design

Savannah, GA

$45,954
$49,430
83.0%
641
29

Kent State University at Kent

Kent, OH

$45,388
$20,787
86.3%
282
30

Maryland Institute College of Art

Baltimore, MD

$45,212
$42,729
76.8%
120
31

College for Creative Studies

Detroit, MI

$44,860
$34,617
91.9%
83
32

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Boston, MA

$43,582
$24,100
76.3%
105
33

Ringling College of Art and Design

Sarasota, FL

$43,325
$57,742
69.7%
133
34

Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design

Lakewood, CO

$42,958
$32,363
N/A
162
35

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, IL

$42,195
$26,598
89.5%
293
36

New England College

Henniker, NH

$42,092
$26,972
92.1%
19
37

Berkeley College-Woodland Park

Woodland Park, NJ

$40,251
$27,100
N/A
40
38

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, CA

$39,008
$40,613
N/A
54
39

Los Angeles Film School

Hollywood, CA

$31,632
$30,980
N/A
60
40

Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Fajardo

Fajardo, PR

$23,132
$9,230
26.5%
6
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