2025 Best Visual Communications Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5
Colleges in the Southwest Region
243
Bachelor's Degrees
Ranked #115 in popularity,
visual communications is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 5 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Visual Communications Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 243 bachelor's degrees in visual communications during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Visual Communications School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The graphic arts 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 college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection 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 visual communications students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other visual communications 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 visual communications related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for visual communications students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Visual Communications Schools
The graphic arts 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 Visual Communications Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.
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.
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