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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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

In 2020-2021, 1,446 degrees and certificates were awarded to design and applied arts students who went to a Georgia college or university. This makes it the #14 most popular major in the state.

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.

The Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in Georgia ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Georgia 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 Georgia

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

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

#1

Gwinnett Technical College

Lawrenceville, GA

36 Associate Degrees

#13 in Quality in Georgia

$3,236 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Gwinnett Technical College the best value school in Georgia for design and applied arts students working on their associate degree. Located in the large suburb of Lawrenceville, GTC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

GTC undergraduate students pay an average of $3,236 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Design majors at GTC take out an average of $18,811 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at Gwinnett Technical College

#2

The Art Institute of Atlanta

Atlanta, GA

4 Associate Degrees

$19,354 Average Tuition & Fees

$28,201 Average Student Debt

The excellent associate degree programs at The Art Institute of Atlanta helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value design and applied arts schools in Georgia. Ai Atlanta is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Atlanta.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Ai Atlanta are $19,354 a year. On average, design graduates from Ai Atlanta take out $28,201 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

Full Design & Applied Arts at The Art Institute of Atlanta Report

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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