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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Ohio

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$13,389 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,224 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree School for You

Design & Applied Arts is the #20 most popular major in Ohio with 1,456 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Ohio to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Ohio to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for design students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Ohio

Check out the design associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Ohio Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Design & Applied Arts

Our 2023 rankings named Sinclair Community College the best value school in Ohio for design and applied arts students working on their associate degree. Sinclair Community College is a large public school located in the midsize city of Dayton.

Sinclair Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $4,329 in in-state tuition and fees each year. While working on their Associate Degree, design majors at Sinclair Community College accumulate an average of around $14,806 in student debt.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Cuyahoga Community College District. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Ohio list. Located in the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga Community College District is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Cuyahoga Community College District are $4,472 per year. Design majors at Cuyahoga Community College District take out an average of $19,344 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

Cuyahoga Community College District also took the #5 spot in our Best Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Ohio rankings.

Full Design & Applied Arts at Cuyahoga Community College District Report

#3

Owens Community College

Perrysburg, OH

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Owens Community College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Ohio list. Located in the large suburb of Perrysburg, Owens State Community College is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Owens State Community College are $5,510 per year. The average amount in student loans that design majors at Owens State Community College take out while working on their Associate Degree is $19,845.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The Modern College of Design. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Ohio list. Located in the small city of Kettering, The Modern College of Design is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at The Modern College of Design are $30,328 a year. Design majors at The Modern College of Design take out an average of $8,516 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $279, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

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Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 1,011
Illinois 979
Indiana 417
Wisconsin 717

One of 10 majors within the area of study, design and applied arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Design

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Music 25,910
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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