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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Schools in District of Columbia

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$35,680 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$52,263 Avg Salary

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

With 33 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, design and applied arts is the #86 most popular major in District of Columbia.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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 Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Schools in District of Columbia ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in District of Columbia to see which master'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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia

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

Best District of Columbia Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Design & Applied Arts

#1

American University

Washington, DC

Our 2023 rankings named American University the best value school in District of Columbia for design and applied arts students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Washington, The American University is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at The American University are $38,456 a year.

The American University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia list.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at George Washington University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value design and applied arts schools in District of Columbia. GWU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Washington.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at GWU are $32,904 per year.

GWU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia list.

Full Design & Applied Arts at George Washington University Report

Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 380
Pennsylvania 77
Maryland 207
New Jersey 0
Delaware 3

One of 9 majors within the area of study, design and applied arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 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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