2024 Best Illustration Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you plan on getting your master's degree in illustration, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #400 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Illustration Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 master's degrees in illustration during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Illustration School for Your Master's Degree

The illustration master'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 master'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 for a Master's Degree 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 much a school focuses on illustration students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other illustration students want to attend this school to pursue a master'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 illustration related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for illustration students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Illustration Schools

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

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Illustration in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in illustration.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Illustration

1

Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in illustration needs to take a look at Maryland Institute College of Art. MICA is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Baltimore.More information about a master’s in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art

2

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in illustration needs to look into Syracuse University. Located in the midsize city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in illustration from Syracuse University

3

Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, NY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

9 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in illustration needs to look into Fashion Institute of Technology. FIT SUNY is a medium-sized public school located in the city of New York.More information about a master’s in illustration from Fashion Institute of Technology

4

School of Visual Arts
New York, NY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in illustration has to look into School of Visual Arts. SVA is a small private for-profit school located in the large city of New York.More information about a master’s in illustration from School of Visual Arts

Best Illustration Colleges by State

Explore the best illustration schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	695	49
Pennsylvania	607	0
Maryland	363	15

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Rankings in Majors Related to Illustration

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

Majors Similar to Illustration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Design & Applied Arts	174
Visual Communications	134
Interior Design	131
Industrial Design	77
Game & Interactive Media Design	41
Graphic Design	39
Fashion Design	30
Commercial & Advertising Art	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.