Design & Applied Arts at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

What traits are you looking for in a design school? To help you decide if University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's design program.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and has a total student population of 52,679. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 105 students received a bachelor's degree in design from UIUC.

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.

UIUC Design & Applied Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design

UIUC Design & Applied Arts Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks design programs across the country. The following shows how UIUC 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 UIUC 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
Best Design & Applied Arts Schools	17
	37
Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools	183

How Much Do Design Graduates from UIUC Make?

The median salary of design students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIUC is $44,353. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 36% higher than the national average of $32,733 for all design bachelor's degree recipients.

Design Student Demographics at UIUC

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

UIUC Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 105 students earned a bachelor's degree in design from UIUC. About 64% of these graduates were women and the other 36% were men. The typical design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at UIUC since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in design.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	39
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry
• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• Dance
• Drama & Theater Arts
• Fine & Studio 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Graphic Designers	11,700	$56,890
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	3,940	$68,360
Professors	3,040	$66,970
Photographers	2,600	$36,290
Interior Designers	2,250	$52,150

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.