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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$9,982 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Graduate Certificate School for You

Design & Applied Arts is the #91 most popular major in the country with 1,979 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Design & Applied Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

Check out the design graduate certificate programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Design & Applied Arts Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named Arizona State University - Skysong the best value school in the Southwest Region for design and applied arts students working on their graduate certificate. ASU - Skysong is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Scottsdale.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at ASU - Skysong are $9,982 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, ASU - Skysong is ranked #2 for overall quality for design in the Southwest Region .

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Best Design & Applied Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best design and applied arts colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 51
Arizona 36
Oklahoma 4

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.

  • 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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