2025 Best Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Louisiana

If you pursue a bachelor's degree in design & applied arts, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #27 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Louisiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 96 bachelor's degrees in design & applied arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

Your choice of design & applied arts for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality design program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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 take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 design & applied arts students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other design & applied arts 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt design & applied arts students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized design & applied arts related body.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

The design school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Design & Applied Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Louisiana.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

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

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

Top Louisiana Schools for a Bachelor's in Design

1

Loyola University New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

14 Annual Graduates

Loyola University New Orleans is a good decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in design & applied arts. Located in the large city of New Orleans, Loyola New Orleans is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in design & applied arts from Loyola University New Orleans

2

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, LA

33 Annual Graduates

$29,146 Median Starting Salary

Louisiana Tech University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in design & applied arts. Located in the town of Ruston, Louisiana Tech is a public university with a large student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the design program earn an average of $29,146 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in design & applied arts from Louisiana Tech University

3

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA

12 Annual Graduates

$28,206 Median Starting Salary

University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in design & applied arts. UL Lafayette is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Lafayette.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the design program report average early career earnings of $28,206.

More information about a bachelor’s in design & applied arts from University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Best Design & Applied Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	707
Georgia	224	1,028
Tennessee	220	208
North Carolina	213	529
Virginia	213	635
South Carolina	195	224
Kentucky	187	64
Alabama	184	196
Mississippi	169	25
Arkansas	167	216
West Virginia	147	106

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Rankings in Majors Related to Design

One of 10 majors within the Visual & Performing Arts area of study, Design & Applied Arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Design Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Visual Communications	50
Graphic Design	34
Industrial Design	12

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts	316
Music	194
Drama & Theater Arts	131
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	73
Arts & Media Management	69
General Visual & Performing Arts	21
Dance	10
Other Visual Art	8

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.