Design & Applied Arts at Eastern Michigan University

If you are interested in studying design & applied arts, you may want to check out the program at Eastern Michigan University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and approximately 16,294 students attend the school each year.

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.

Eastern Michigan Design & Applied Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design
• Master’s Degree in Design

Eastern Michigan Design & Applied Arts Rankings

The design major at Eastern Michigan 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.

Design Student Demographics at Eastern Michigan

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the design majors at Eastern Michigan University.

Eastern Michigan Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of design bachelor's degrees went to men and 62% went to women. The typical design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 31% men. So male students are more repesented at Eastern Michigan since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 77% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in design at Eastern Michigan 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 Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor's in design.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	30
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Eastern Michigan Design & Applied Arts Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of design master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a master's in design.

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

Concentrations Within Design & Applied Arts

Design & Applied Arts majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Eastern Michigan University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Game & Interactive Media Design	34
Interior Design	21

Related Majors

• Dance
• Arts & Media Management
• Music
• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• Drama & Theater 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 MI, the home state for Eastern Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Graphic Designers	5,680	$47,700
Commercial and Industrial Designers	5,060	$75,430
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	2,710	$76,250
Interior Designers	1,610	$51,030

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 Dwight Burdette under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.