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Most Popular Schools for General Design and Visual Communications Major & Degree Program

A program in the applied visual arts that focuses on the general principles and techniques for effectively communicating ideas and information, and packaging products, in digital and other formats to business and consumer audiences, and that may prepare individuals in any of the applied art media.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Ivy Tech Community College 260 1% $5,788
2 University of California-Davis 185 2% $35,177
3 Columbus State Community College 176 3% $5,813
4 Full Sail University 170 3% $24,639
5 Utah Valley University 162 3% $6,450
6 FIDM-Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising-Los Angeles 155 12% $34,794
7 CUNY New York City College of Technology 121 4% $8,484
8 College of DuPage 108 2% $5,464
9 Pratt Institute-Main 103 7% $67,742
10 California State University-Chico 97 2% $24,624
11 Augusta Technical College 91 5% $4,794
12 Texas State University 88 1% $23,130
13 Chattahoochee Technical College 87 3% $3,866
14 Brigham Young University-Provo 84 1% $18,776
15 Liberty University 83 0% $40,075
16 University of Kansas 80 1% $26,566
17 Iowa State University 74 1% $21,186
18 Atlanta Technical College 66 3% $4,120
19 West Virginia University 61 1% $23,294
20 San Antonio College 59 1% $4,311
21 Radford University 53 2% $24,088
22 Bowling Green State University-Main Campus 51 1% $24,915
23 Syracuse University 50 1% $70,636
24 Northern Arizona University 50 1% $27,266
25 Carnegie Mellon University 50 1% $72,283
26 San Francisco State University 48 1% $27,480
27 Washington University in St Louis 48 1% $74,361
28 Kean University 47 1% $30,475
29 Savannah College of Art and Design 44 2% $57,443
30 Otis College of Art and Design 43 14% $66,160
31 Farmingdale State College 43 2% $24,744
32 Western Washington University 39 1% $24,077
33 Shoreline Community College 38 2% $4,743
34 Danville Community College 38 5% $6,210
35 Auburn University 38 1% $31,590
36 Gnomon 37 51% $30,984
37 Central Connecticut State University 36 1% $25,869
38 California State University-Monterey Bay 36 2% $23,564
39 University of North Texas 36 0% $24,712
40 Georgia Piedmont Technical College 36 2% $4,904
41 Lanier Technical College 36 2% $4,436
42 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 35 0% $23,977
43 Austin Community College District 35 1% $3,750
44 Northern Virginia Community College 34 0% $7,410
45 LIM College 34 6% $50,980
46 Minneapolis Community and Technical College 34 3% $6,796
47 Robert Morris University 34 3% $48,220
48 Boise State University 33 1% $23,076
49 Central Georgia Technical College 33 1% $4,378
50 Adirondack Community College 32 5% $20,515
51 SUNY Broome Community College 32 2% $20,599
52 Tidewater Community College 31 1% $7,061
53 University of San Francisco 31 1% $68,296
54 University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth 29 2% $30,275
55 Tulsa Technology Center 29 1% N/A
56 Missouri State University-Springfield 28 1% $21,782
57 Harford Community College 28 3% $5,015
58 Cornish College of the Arts 28 23% $59,442
59 Metropolitan State University of Denver 27 1% $9,066
60 Purdue University-Main Campus 27 0% $22,822
61 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 27 1% $28,058
62 California College of the Arts 27 5% $67,074
63 The Creative Circus 27 33% $16,371
64 University of Delaware 26 0% $29,342
65 Albany Technical College 25 1% $3,512
66 Oregon State University 24 0% $26,892
67 Belmont University 23 1% $52,760
68 John C Calhoun State Community College 23 1% $6,320
69 AI Miami International University of Art and Design 23 5% $19,104
70 FIDM-Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising-San Francisco 22 18% $34,794
71 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 22 0% $29,097
72 Cuyahoga Community College District 22 0% $5,136
73 Western Oregon University 21 1% $24,315
74 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 21 0% $27,638
75 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay 21 2% $19,334
76 Stevenson University 20 2% $53,149
77 Horry-Georgetown Technical College 20 1% $5,812
78 The University of Texas at Austin 20 0% $26,506
79 Autry Technology Center 20 8% N/A
80 University of Notre Dame 19 1% $71,801
81 Seton Hall University 19 1% $59,670
82 University of Redlands 19 1% $68,922
83 Winthrop University 18 1% $28,938
84 Cazenovia College 18 8% $51,526
85 Marymount Manhattan College 18 4% $58,110
86 McHenry County College 18 1% $4,894
87 Guam Community College 18 5% $4,614
88 Northwest College of Art & Design 17 100% $21,373
89 Ohio State University-Main Campus 16 0% $27,367
90 Bowie State University 16 2% $23,238
91 Virginia Commonwealth University 16 0% $32,041
92 Lake Washington Institute of Technology 16 1% $5,259
93 Northeastern University 16 0% $70,592
94 Seattle Pacific University 15 1% $58,794
95 Western Iowa Tech Community College 15 1% $14,325
96 Bates Technical College 15 1% $6,316
97 Broadview Entertainment Arts University 15 52% $15,972
98 Texas State Technical College 15 0% $19,530
99 Bemidji State University 14 1% $20,994
100 Harrisburg Area Community College 14 1% $8,651

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Design and Visual Communications, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.