Design & Applied Arts at University of Pennsylvania

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

UPenn is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and approximately 26,552 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,499 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2021, 5 of them were design and applied arts majors.

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.

UPenn Design & Applied Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design

UPenn Design & Applied Arts Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the design progam at UPenn compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The design major at UPenn 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 Popular Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools	107
Most Focused Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools	107

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in design from UPenn. This is the #108 most popular school for design master’s degree candidates in the country.

Design Student Demographics at UPenn

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

UPenn Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 design students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UPenn, about 40% were men and 60% were women. The typical design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at UPenn since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% 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 Pennsylvania with a bachelor's in design.

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

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

Related Majors

• Drama & Theater Arts
• Music
• General Visual & Performing Arts
• Film, Video & Photographic 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 PA, the home state for University of Pennsylvania.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Graphic Designers	8,710	$53,050
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	5,050	$80,740
Photographers	1,740	$34,790
Interior Designers	1,510	$57,730

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 WestCoastivieS under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.