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2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Montana

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,510 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts School for You

With 25 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, design and applied arts is the #83 most popular major in Montana.

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 Montana ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Montana to see which ones offered the best value 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.

2023 Best Value Design & Applied Arts Schools in Montana

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

Best Montana Schools for Affordable Quality in Design & Applied Arts

$7,528 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Montana State University the best value school in Montana for design and applied arts students. Located in the town of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at MSU Bozeman are $7,528 per year.

Full Design & Applied Arts at Montana State University Report

$7,492 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means The University of Montana is a great value for design and applied arts students. Located in the small city of Missoula, UM is a public college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UM are $7,492 a year.

Read full report on Design & Applied Arts at The University of Montana

Best Value Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 316
Utah 569
Idaho 125
Wyoming 22

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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