You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drake University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Design & Applied Arts Major in Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other design and applied arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.