by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Columbus College of Art and Design was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is design & applied arts.
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CCAD was not ranked in College Factual's 2025 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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With an acceptance rate of 91%, CCAD has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at CCAD it is much better at 10 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Columbus College of Art and Design is 32%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 78% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Columbus College of Art and Design enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at CCAD for first-time, full-time students is 53%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Columbus College of Art and Design.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 982 undergraduates at CCAD with 958 being full-time and 24 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $22,364 | $23,978 | $27,529 | $30,512 | $33,828 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of CCAD, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At CCAD, approximately 80% of students took out student loans averaging $8,278 a year. That adds up to $33,112 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for CCAD are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH 43215 |
| Phone: | 614-224-3295 |
| Website: | www.ccad.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Design & Applied Arts | 123 | $27,970 |
| Graphic Communications | 44 | $20,110 |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 18 | $28,994 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 13 | $25,751 |
| General Visual & Performing Arts | 12 | NA |
| Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry | 0 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 506 students took at least one online class at Columbus College of Art and Design. This is a decrease from the 752 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 506 | 12 |
| 2021-2022 | 752 | 42 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,008 | 913 |
| 2018-2019 | 193 | 0 |
Learn more about online learning at Columbus College of Art and Design.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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