2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Illustration in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 2,538 people earned their degree in illustration, making the major the 249th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 47 illustration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 21 illustration graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in illustration. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in illustration.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree illustration students.

Top 6 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Illustration in the Southwest Region

1

Sessions College for Professional Design
Tempe, Arizona

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sessions College for Professional Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Sessions College is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 associates’s illustration degrees to qualified students.

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2

Collin County Community College District
McKinney, Texas

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Collin County Community College District. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in McKinney, Texas, this large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified associates’s illustration students in 2020-2021.

Full Collin County Community College District Illustration Report

3

Mesa Community College
Mesa, Arizona

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mesa Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Mesa, Arizona, and it awarded 1 associates’s illustration degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Illustration at Mesa Community College

4

Phoenix College
Phoenix, Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Phoenix College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s illustration degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Illustration at Phoenix College

4

Chandler-Gilbert Community College
Chandler, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chandler-Gilbert Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region list. Chandler-Gilbert Community College is a fairly large school located in Chandler, Arizona that handed out 2 associates’s illustration degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Illustration at Chandler-Gilbert Community College

4

St Philip's College
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St Philip’s College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Illustration Major in the Southwest Region list. St Philip’s College is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s illustration degrees to qualified students.

Full St Philip’s College Illustration Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Illustration

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.