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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Missouri

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$38,753 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,453 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts School for You

In 2020-2021, 13 degrees and certificates were awarded to design and applied arts students who went to a Missouri college or university. This makes it the #139 most popular major in the state.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

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 Schools in Missouri ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Missouri to see which ones offered the best value programs for design students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Missouri

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

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality in Design & Applied Arts

#1

Lindenwood University

Saint Charles, MO
$18,640 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Lindenwood University the best value school in Missouri for design and applied arts students. Located in the city of Saint Charles, Lindenwood University is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

Lindenwood University undergraduate students pay an average of $18,640 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$58,866 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Washington University in St Louis helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best design and applied arts schools in Missouri. WUSTL is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Saint Louis.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WUSTL are $58,866 per year.

WUSTL did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Schools in Missouri list.

Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at Washington University in St Louis

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

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

State Degrees Awarded
Minnesota 18
Iowa 13
Kansas 7

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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