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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$4,080 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,224 Avg Salary

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

With 316 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, design and applied arts is the #50 most popular major in Colorado.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

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 Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree School

#1

Arapahoe Community College

Littleton, CO

Our analysis found Arapahoe Community College to be the best value school for design and applied arts students who want to pursue a associate degree in Colorado. Located in the suburb of Littleton, Arapahoe Community College is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Arapahoe Community College are $4,080 a year. While working on their Associate Degree, design majors at Arapahoe Community College accumulate an average of around $23,598 in student debt.

Arapahoe Community College not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Colorado list.

Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at Arapahoe Community College

Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 569
Idaho 125
Montana 25
Wyoming 22

Design & Applied Arts is one of 10 different types of programs to choose from.

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 values are for the top school 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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