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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Kansas

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$9,983 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,059 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts School for You

Design & Applied Arts is the #116 most popular major in Kansas with 7 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. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

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 Schools in Kansas ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Kansas 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.

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.

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Kansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges.

Best Kansas Schools for Affordable Quality in Design & Applied Arts

$8,800 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Wichita State University to be the best value school for design and applied arts students who want to pursue a degree in Kansas. Located in the city of Wichita, WSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at WSU are $8,800 a year.

Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at Wichita State University

#2

University of Kansas

Lawrence, KS
$11,166 Average Tuition & Fees

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

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at KU are $11,166 a year.

KU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Schools in Kansas list.

Full Design & Applied Arts at University of Kansas Report

Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 13
Minnesota 18
Iowa 13

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 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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