2024 Best Visual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5
Colleges in the Southwest Region
150
Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in
visual communications, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #112 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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 5 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Visual Communications Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 150 associate degrees in visual communications during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Visual Communications School for Your Associate Degree
The graphic arts associate 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school'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.
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 associate 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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for visual communications students working on their associate 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 Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.