2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Schools in Illinois
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree School for You
With 979 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, design and applied arts is the #37 most popular major in Illinois.
There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Illinois to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for design students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Colleges.
Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Design & Applied Arts
Our 2023 rankings named Illinois Institute of Technology the best value school in Illinois for design and applied arts students working on their master’s degree. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Illinois Tech are $30,822 a year.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Illinois at Chicago is a great value for design and applied arts students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of Chicago, UIC is a public school with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UIC are $17,277 a year.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at DePaul University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value design and applied arts schools in Illinois. DePaul is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at DePaul are $18,341 a year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.
Northwestern graduate students pay an average of $56,567 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Northwestern did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate students pay an average of $45,601 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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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 |
| Ohio | 1,456 |
| Indiana | 417 |
| Wisconsin | 717 |
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Design & Applied Arts Related Majors for Design
One of 10 majors within the area of study, design and applied arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 5 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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