Design & Applied Arts at Champlain College

What traits are you looking for in a design school? To help you decide if Champlain College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's design program.

Champlain is located in Burlington, Vermont and approximately 4,137 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 49 students received a bachelor's degree in design from Champlain.

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.

Champlain Design & Applied Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design

Champlain Design & Applied Arts Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks design programs across the country. The following shows how Champlain performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The design major at Champlain 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Design & Applied Arts Schools	217
	311

How Much Do Design Graduates from Champlain Make?

The median salary of design students who receive their bachelor's degree at Champlain is $31,178. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,733 for all design students.

Design Student Demographics at Champlain

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the design majors at Champlain College.

Champlain Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 49 design majors earned their bachelor's degree from Champlain. Of these graduates, 61% were men and 39% were women. The typical design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at Champlain since its program graduates 29% more men than average.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in design at Champlain are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Champlain College with a bachelor's in design.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	38
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• Arts & Media Management
• General Visual & Performing Arts

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 VT, the home state for Champlain College.

Occupation	Jobs in VT	Average Salary in VT
Graphic Designers	540	$50,000
Commercial and Industrial Designers	170	$66,180
Photographers	110	$48,840
Art Directors	60	$86,740

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nightspark (talk) under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.