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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$14,381 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,319 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree School for You

Design & Applied Arts is the #46 most popular major in Arizona with 594 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Arizona to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's 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. 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.

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arizona

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

Best Arizona Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Design & Applied Arts

Our 2023 rankings named Arizona State University - Tempe the best value school in Arizona for design and applied arts students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the medium-sized city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ASU - Tempe are $11,348 per year. While working on their Bachelor's Degree, design majors at ASU - Tempe accumulate an average of around $22,487 in student debt. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $313.

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Out of the 4 schools in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the # 2 spot on the list. NAU is a very large public school located in the city of Flagstaff.

NAU undergraduate students pay an average of $11,527 in in-state tuition and fees each year. After completing their Bachelor's Degree, design graduates from NAU carry an average student debtload of $20,821. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $255, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

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#3

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, AZ

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Grand Canyon University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value design and applied arts schools in Arizona. Grand Canyon University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the large city of Phoenix.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Grand Canyon University are $17,189 a year.

Grand Canyon University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arizona list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Advancing Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arizona list. Located in the medium-sized city of Tempe, University of Advancing Technology is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

University of Advancing Technology undergraduate students pay an average of $17,461 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,449
Oklahoma 211
New Mexico 30

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 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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