Design & Applied Arts at University of Houston

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

UH is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 47,090 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 51 students received a bachelor's degree in design from UH.

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.

UH Design & Applied Arts Degrees Available

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

UH Design & Applied Arts Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks design programs across the country. The following shows how UH 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 UH 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 Master’s Degree Schools	104
Most Focused Design & Applied Arts Schools	832

In 2021, 2 students received their master’s degree in design from UH. This makes it the #91 most popular school for design master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of UH Design Graduates

The median salary of design students who receive their bachelor's degree at UH is $38,297. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 17% higher than the national average of $32,733 for all design bachelor's degree recipients.

Design Student Demographics at UH

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

UH Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Program

Of the 51 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Design & Applied Arts from UH in 2020-2021, 39% were men and 61% were women. The typical design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at UH since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% 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 University of Houston with a bachelor's in design.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	15
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

UH Design & Applied Arts Master’s Program

Of the 2 design students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from UH, about 50% were men and 50% were women.

Of the students who received a design master's degree from UH, 100% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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

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

Related Majors

• Arts & Media Management
• Dance
• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• Drama & Theater Arts
• Music

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 TX, the home state for University of Houston.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Graphic Designers	13,480	$50,700
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	6,240	$71,520
Interior Designers	4,230	$56,430
Professors	3,510	$61,660
Photographers	3,070	$34,160

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 RJN2 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.