Design & Applied Arts at University of Southern California

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

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and has a total student population of 46,287. In 2021, 46 design majors received their bachelor's degree from USC.

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.

USC Design & Applied Arts Degrees Available

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

USC Design & Applied Arts Rankings

The design major at USC 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.

In 2021, 21 students received their master’s degree in design from USC. This makes it the #22 most popular school for design master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of USC Design Graduates

The median salary of design students who receive their bachelor's degree at USC is $29,631. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $32,733 for all design students.

Design Student Demographics at USC

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

USC Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Program

Of the 46 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Design & Applied Arts from USC in 2020-2021, 43% were men and 57% were women. The typical design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at USC since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 Southern California with a bachelor's in design.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	11
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	16
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

USC Design & Applied Arts Master’s Program

Of the 21 design students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from USC, about 19% were men and 81% were women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	2
International Students	12
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Other Visual Art
• Dance
• General Visual & Performing Arts
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Arts & Media Management

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 CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Graphic Designers	29,320	$61,100
Multimedia Artists and Animators	10,760	$87,960
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	9,710	$115,460
Interior Designers	8,460	$68,440
Art Directors	7,620	$127,630

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 Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.