2025 Best Illustration Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

a bachelor's degree in illustration is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #153 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.

College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Illustration Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 633 bachelor's degrees in illustration during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Illustration School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of illustration 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 good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college'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 illustration students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other illustration 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 illustration related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for illustration students working on their bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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 Illustration in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in illustration.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Illustration

1

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

364 Annual Graduates

Savannah College of Art and Design is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in illustration. Located in the city of Savannah, SCAD is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design

2

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

131 Annual Graduates

Virginia Commonwealth University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in illustration. VCU is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Richmond.More information about a bachelor’s in illustration from Virginia Commonwealth University

3

Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota, FL

110 Annual Graduates

Ringling College of Art and Design is a wonderful choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in illustration. Located in the small city of Sarasota, Ringling College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in illustration from Ringling College of Art and Design

4

John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR

13 Annual Graduates

John Brown University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in illustration. Located in the town of Siloam Springs, JBU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in illustration from John Brown University

5

Nossi College of Art
Nashville, TN

14 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Nashville, Nossi College of Art is a private for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in illustration from Nossi College of Art

Best Illustration Colleges by State

Explore the best illustration colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	492	90
Tennessee	460	11
Georgia	453	279
Virginia	421	111
Arkansas	294	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to Illustration

Illustration is one of 9 different types of Design & Applied Arts programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Graphic Design	941
Interior Design	867
Visual Communications	530
Other Design & Applied Arts	386
Fashion Design	318
Industrial Design	226
Game & Interactive Media Design	118
Commercial Photography	38
Commercial & Advertising Art	33

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.