2024 Best Other Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

a bachelor's degree in other design & applied arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #269 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for other design & applied arts students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 20 bachelor's degrees in other design & applied arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Other Design & Applied Arts School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of other design & applied arts for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on other design & applied arts students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of other design & applied arts students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other design & applied arts related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for other design & applied arts students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Other Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Other Design & Applied Arts in Massachusetts

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in other design & applied arts.

Top Massachusetts Schools for a Bachelor's in Other Design & Applied Arts

1

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

1 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in other design & applied arts has to check out Northeastern University. Located in the large city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in other design & applied arts from Northeastern University

2

Lesley University
Cambridge, MA

17 Annual Graduates

Lesley University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in other design & applied arts. Lesley is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Cambridge.More information about a bachelor’s in other design & applied arts from Lesley University

3

Salem State University
Salem, MA

1 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in other design & applied arts has to look into Salem State University. Salem State is a moderately-sized public university located in the large suburb of Salem.More information about a bachelor’s in other design & applied arts from Salem State University

Best Other Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Other Design & Applied Arts Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Maine	281	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Other Design & Applied Arts

One of 9 majors within the Design & Applied Arts area of study, Other Design & Applied Arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Graphic Design	245
Illustration	137
Visual Communications	77
Interior Design	72
Industrial Design	60
Fashion Design	56
Game & Interactive Media Design	56
Commercial & Advertising Art	10
Commercial Photography	1

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.