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Best Design & Applied Arts Schools in Iowa

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2023 Best Design & Applied Arts Schools in Iowa

1 College
$31,807 Avg Salary
$23,790 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts School for You

In 2020-2021, 13 degrees and certificates were awarded to design and applied arts students who went to a Iowa college or university. This makes it the #99 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Design & Applied Arts Schools in Iowa ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 1 schools in Iowa to see which ones offered the best programs for students.

View our full ranking methodology.

The following school tops our list of the Best Design & Applied Arts Colleges.

Best Design & Applied Arts School

Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best school in Iowa for design and applied arts students. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Ames.

Full Design & Applied Arts at Iowa State University Report

Best Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Design & Applied Arts Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 13
Minnesota 18
Kansas 7

Design & Applied Arts is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Design

Related Major Annual Graduates
Music 7,675
Fine & Studio Arts 3,224
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 1,704
Drama & Theater Arts 1,699
Arts & Media Management 1,184

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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