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Design & Applied Arts at California State University - Sacramento

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Design & Applied Arts at California State University - Sacramento

If you plan to study design and applied arts, take a look at what California State University - Sacramento has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Sac State is located in Sacramento, California and approximately 32,293 students attend the school each year. Of the 7,644 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University - Sacramento in 2021, 55 of them were design and applied arts majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Design & Applied Arts section at the bottom of this page.

Sac State Design & Applied Arts Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Design

Sac State Design & Applied Arts Rankings

The design major at Sac State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Design & Applied Arts. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Earnings of Sac State Design Graduates

The median salary of design students who receive their bachelor's degree at Sac State is $37,137. This is 13% higher than $32,733, which is the national average for all design bachelor's degree recipients.

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Design Student Demographics at Sac State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the design majors at California State University - Sacramento.

Sac State Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Program

65% Women
49% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 35% of design bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% went to women. The typical design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at Sac State since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its design bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Sacramento with a bachelor's in design.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 10
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 14
White 25
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 5

Sac State also has a doctoral program available in design. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Careers That Design Grads May Go Into

A degree in design can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - Sacramento.

Occupation Jobs in CA Average Salary in CA
Graphic Designers 29,320 $61,100
Multimedia Artists and Animators 10,760 $87,960
Art, Drama, and Music Professors 9,710 $115,460
Interior Designers 8,460 $68,440
Art Directors 7,620 $127,630

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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