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Best Colleges for Design and Applied Arts

Ranked by 5-year median salary · Bachelor's degree · 118 institutions with data

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# Institution State Year 1 Year 5 Median Year 10 PP Adjusted
1 University of Utah UT $52,165 $83,557 $80,731
2 Georgia Institute of Technology GA $53,630 $77,671 $96,276 $85,824
3 University of Texas at Austin TX $53,298 $75,893 $84,610 $82,403
4 University of Cincinnati OH $55,855 $75,335 $94,156 $83,613
5 Quinnipiac University CT $44,319 $73,546 $85,664 $63,787
6 Pennsylvania State University (The) PA $46,826 $73,157 $100,222 $74,574
7 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL $47,574 $71,422 $96,791 $77,802
8 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University VA $50,197 $71,408 $89,264 $69,666
9 Fashion Institute of Technology NY $48,094 $70,659 $88,665 $53,530
10 Ohio State University (The) OH $47,983 $70,561 $87,351 $78,314
11 Miami University OH $48,934 $68,857 $92,357 $76,423
12 University of Oregon OR $39,614 $68,723 $74,872 $60,125
13 SUNY College at Purchase NY $42,608 $66,986 $91,284 $50,747
14 University of Houston TX $46,516 $66,328 $91,099 $72,017
15 State University of New York at Oneonta NY $38,170 $66,303 $50,230
16 North Carolina State University NC $44,206 $65,807 $81,618 $67,287
17 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities MN $46,164 $64,712 $84,822 $68,769
18 Arizona State University AZ $43,299 $64,530 $83,719 $60,592
19 DePaul University IL $33,078 $64,085 $84,259 $69,809
20 Loyola University Chicago IL $37,446 $63,750 $77,901 $69,444

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Data sources: US Census Bureau Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO). Cost-of-living index: BLS Regional CPI & MIT Living Wage Project. Cost of attendance: IPEDS. For informational use only; data may be suppressed for small cohort sizes.