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2023 Most Popular Design & Applied Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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Finding the Best Design & Applied Arts Graduate Certificate School for You

Design & Applied Arts is the #36 most popular major in the country with 36,301 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Design & Applied Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Design & Applied Arts program at each school on the list.

Check out the design graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in the Southwest Region .

Our analysis found Arizona State University - Skysong to be the most popular school for design and applied arts students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . ASU - Skysong is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Scottsdale.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at The University of Texas at Austin helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular design and applied arts schools in the Southwest Region . UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Austin.

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#2

St. Mary's University

San Antonio, TX

Out of the 3 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St. Mary’s University landed the # 2 spot on the list. St. Mary's is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of San Antonio.

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Best Design & Applied Arts Colleges by State

Explore the best design and applied arts schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 1,449
Arizona 594
Oklahoma 211
New Mexico 30

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

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 3 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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