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Visual Communications at Northwest College of Art & Design

Visual Communications at Northwest College of Art & Design

If you plan to study visual communications, take a look at what Northwest College of Art & Design has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NCAD is located in Tacoma, Washington and has a total student population of 101.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Visual Communications section at the bottom of this page.

NCAD Visual Communications Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Arts

NCAD Visual Communications Rankings

The graphic arts major at NCAD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Visual Communications. 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.

Graphic Arts Student Demographics at NCAD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the graphic arts majors at Northwest College of Art & Design.

NCAD Visual Communications Bachelor’s Program

59% Women
29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 41% of graphic arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 59% went to women. The typical graphic arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at NCAD since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

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About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in graphic arts at NCAD 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 Northwest College of Art & Design with a bachelor's in graphic arts.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 12
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

Careers That Graphic Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in graphic arts can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for WA, the home state for Northwest College of Art & Design.

Occupation Jobs in WA Average Salary in WA
Graphic Designers 5,060 $60,530
Art, Drama, and Music Professors 1,930 $67,430
Commercial and Industrial Designers 360 $82,740
Designers 270 $66,270
Set and Exhibit Designers 160 $47,460

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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