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Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$30,644 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$52,263 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 533 degrees and certificates were awarded to design and applied arts students who went to a Minnesota college or university. This makes it the #38 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Minnesota to see which ones offered the best value master'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. 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.

Best Minnesota Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Design & Applied Arts

Our analysis found University of Minnesota - Twin Cities to be the best value school for design and applied arts students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Minnesota. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UMN Twin Cities are $19,494 a year.

UMN Twin Cities did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Minneapolis College of Art and Design is a great value for design and applied arts students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, MCAD is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

MCAD graduate students pay an average of $41,794 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 432
Kansas 229
Iowa 481
Nebraska 223
North Dakota 36
South Dakota 57

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

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 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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