2024 Best Graphic Design Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
8
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
417
Associate Degrees
Graphic Design is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #68 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for graphic design students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 417 associate degrees in graphic design during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Graphic Design School for Your Associate Degree
The graphic design associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different 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 many resources a school devotes to graphic design students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of graphic design students who choose to seek a associate 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 graphic design related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for graphic design students working on their associate 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 Graphic Design Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.