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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Doctor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$30,690 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 1,979 people earned a degree or certificate in design and applied arts, making the major the #91 most popular in the United States.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Design & Applied Arts Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for design students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for design majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Design & Applied Arts

Our analysis found Illinois Institute of Technology to be the best value school for design and applied arts students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Illinois Tech are $30,822 a year.

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#2

Auburn University

Auburn, AL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Design & Applied Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the small city of Auburn, Auburn is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Auburn are $31,986 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Auburn also is in the top 10% of our Best Design & Applied Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.

Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at Auburn University

Out of the 3 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public school with a very large student population.

UMN Twin Cities graduate students pay an average of $29,262 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Design & Applied Arts by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

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

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 averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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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