2025 Best Graphic Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee

Graphic Design is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #84 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Tennessee to determine which ones were the best for graphic design students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 74 bachelor's degrees in graphic design during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Graphic Design School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The graphic design bachelor's 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 - How many other graphic design students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Graphic Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Graphic Design in Tennessee

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for graphic design students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Tennessee Schools for a Bachelor's in Graphic Design

1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

12 Annual Graduates

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a great choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in graphic design. UT Knoxville is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Knoxville.More information about a bachelor’s in graphic design from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

2

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN

15 Annual Graduates

East Tennessee State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in graphic design. ETSU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Johnson City.More information about a bachelor’s in graphic design from East Tennessee State University

3

Nossi College of Art
Nashville, TN

10 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Nossi College of Art if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in graphic design. Located in the city of Nashville, Nossi College of Art is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in graphic design from Nossi College of Art

Best Graphic Design Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Graphic Design Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	492	178
North Carolina	453	179
Georgia	453	34
Virginia	421	177
South Carolina	370	99
Kentucky	331	7
Alabama	320	18
Louisiana	306	13
Arkansas	294	61
Mississippi	275	19
West Virginia	223	13

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Graphic Design Related Rankings by Major

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

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Interior Design	86
Visual Communications	23
Fashion Design	15
Illustration	15
Commercial Photography	7
Other Design & Applied Arts	6
Game & Interactive Media Design	5

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.