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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$2,616 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,224 Avg Salary

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

Design & Applied Arts is the #28 most popular major in North Carolina with 944 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in North Carolina 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.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for design majors pursuing a associate degree.

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

Our 2023 rankings named Guilford Technical Community College the best value school in North Carolina for design and applied arts students working on their associate degree. Guilford Technical Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the medium-sized suburb of Jamestown.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Guilford Technical Community College are $2,289 per year. After completing their Associate Degree, design graduates from Guilford Technical Community College carry an average student debtload of $19,208.

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The excellent associate degree programs at Central Piedmont Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value design and applied arts schools in North Carolina. Located in the city of Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Central Piedmont Community College are $2,792 per year.

Central Piedmont Community College excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Design & Applied Arts Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina list.

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Out of the 3 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Wake Technical Community College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Wake Technical Community College is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Wake Technical Community College are $2,768 a year. On average, design graduates from Wake Technical Community College take out $16,864 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Wake Technical Community College is ranked #5 for overall quality for design in North Carolina.

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Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 1,446
Virginia 889
Florida 1,128
Tennessee 296
Kentucky 84
South Carolina 316
Louisiana 84
Arkansas 228
Alabama 246
Mississippi 81
West Virginia 114

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

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 3 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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