2022 Most Popular Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Illustration in Illinois

For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the most popular for illustration students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 55 bachelor's degrees in illustration during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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We have also developed a number of other rankings to help guide you in your decision-making process. To begin with, if this is not the degree level you are most interested in, you may want to check out one of the others noted above. If you would prefer to limit your search to a specific state or region of the county, see our rankings by location. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for illustration.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

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Most Popular Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Illustration in Illinois

Learn about the most popular colleges and universities for illustration students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Most Well Attended Schools for Illustration Students Working on Their Bachelor's

1

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL

34 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In IL

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at Columbia College Chicago if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in illustration. Columbia is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Chicago. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for bachelor's degrees in illustration in Illinois. More information about a bachelor’s in illustration from Columbia College Chicago

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American Academy of Art
Chicago, IL

21 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In IL

American Academy of Art is one of the most popular schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in illustration. The Academy is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #2 in quality for bachelor's degrees in illustration in Illinois. More information about a bachelor’s in illustration from American Academy of Art

Best Illustration Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Most Popular Illustration Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

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Rankings in Majors Related to Illustration

One of 9 majors within the Design & Applied Arts area of study, Illustration has other similar majors worth exploring.

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Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.