2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Oregon

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts School for You

With 18 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, design and applied arts is the #97 most popular major in Oregon.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Oregon to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Oregon to see which 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Oregon

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

Best Oregon Schools for Affordable Quality in Design & Applied Arts

#1

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR

11 Degrees

#8 in Quality in Oregon

$13,856 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Oregon to be the best value school for design and applied arts students who want to pursue a degree in Oregon. UO is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Eugene.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UO are $13,856 per year.

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#2

Pacific Northwest College of Art

Portland, OR

7 Degrees

$42,768 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Pacific Northwest College of Art landed the # 2 spot on the list. Pacific Northwest College of Art is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Portland.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Pacific Northwest College of Art are $42,768 a year.

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Majors Related to Design

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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