2025 Best Commercial & Advertising Art Schools in the Great Lakes Region
9Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
546Commercial and Advertising Art Degrees Awarded
Commercial & Advertising Art is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #262 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 9 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Commercial & Advertising Art Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 546 degrees in commercial & advertising art to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Commercial & Advertising Art School
Your choice of commercial & advertising art school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for commercial & advertising art schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Commercial & Advertising Art Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Commercial & Advertising Art Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Commercial & Advertising Art in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the commercial and advertising art degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Commercial and Advertising Art
Kent State University at Kent is a good option for students pursuing a degree in commercial & advertising art. Kent State is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kent. A Best Colleges rank of #250 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Kent State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 103 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at Kent State in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat College for Creative Studies if you want to pursue a degree in commercial & advertising art. Located in the large city of Detroit, CCS is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
There were about 20 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at CCS in the most recent year we have data available.
Columbus College of Art and Design is a good option for students interested in a degree in commercial & advertising art. Located in the large city of Columbus, CCAD is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
There were approximately 34 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at CCAD in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Ball State University if you want to pursue a degree in commercial & advertising art. Ball State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Muncie. A Best Colleges rank of #181 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Ball State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 4 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at Ball State in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the medium-sized city of Dayton, Sinclair Community College is a public college with a large student population. This college ranks 19th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were approximately 111 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at Sinclair Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large city of Chicago, The Academy is a private for-profit school with a small student population.
There were roughly 5 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at The Academy in the most recent year we have data available.
Dominican U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of River Forest. This university ranks 43rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 5 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at Dominican U in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large suburb of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Community College is a public college with a large student population. This college ranks 29th out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 29 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at Washtenaw Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of Kettering, The Modern College of Design is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.
There were roughly 54 commercial & advertising art students who graduated with this degree at The Modern College of Design in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
Your choice of commercial & advertising art school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for commercial & advertising art schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
