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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$20,395 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,791 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts School for You

In 2020-2021, 59 degrees and certificates were awarded to design and applied arts students who went to a Delaware college or university. This makes it the #56 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 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Delaware ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Delaware to see which 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.

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 Schools in Delaware

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges.

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality in Design & Applied Arts

$15,020 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Delaware the best value school in Delaware for design and applied arts students. UD is a very large public school located in the suburb of Newark.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UD are $15,020 per year. After completing their degree, design graduates from UD carry an average student debtload of $27,000.

UD did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Design & Applied Arts Schools in Delaware list.

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$25,770 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, Delaware College of Art and Design landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Wilmington, DCAD is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

DCAD undergraduate students pay an average of $25,770 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Design majors at DCAD take out an average of $12,000 in student loans while working on their egree. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $423, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

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Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 1,238
New York 4,391
Maryland 617
New Jersey 532
District of Columbia 84

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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