2025 Best Visual Communications Schools in Maryland
3Colleges in Maryland
126Graphic Arts Degrees Awarded
A degree in visual communications is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #154 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the best for visual communications students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 126 degrees in visual communications to qualified students.
The graphic arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Visual Communications rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for visual communications schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Visual Communications Schools in Maryland ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Visual Communications in Maryland
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the graphic arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
Stevenson University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in visual communications. Stevenson is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Owings Mills. This university ranks 18th out of 35 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 21 visual communications students who graduated with this degree at Stevenson in the most recent data year.
University of Maryland - Baltimore County is a great choice for students interested in a degree in visual communications. Located in the large suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #211 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UMBC is a great university overall.
There were about 25 visual communications students who graduated with this degree at UMBC in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Bowie State University if you want to pursue a degree in visual communications. Located in the suburb of Bowie, Bowie State University is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 31st out of 35 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 25 visual communications students who graduated with this degree at Bowie State University in the most recent data year.
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).
The graphic arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Visual Communications rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for visual communications schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
