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2022 Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k

2 Ranked Colleges
16 Degrees Awarded
$35,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master's in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Design & Applied Arts is the 34th most popular major in the country with 36,854 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, design and applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,542 and had an average of $27,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across Minnesota, there were 670 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,046 and $22,484 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 design and applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,396 and $40,953 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in design and applied arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent design and applied arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the design and applied arts program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Design & Applied Arts (Income Over $110k) in Minnesota

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k. UMN Twin Cities is a large school located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that handed out 10 masters’s design degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMN Twin Cities, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMN Twin Cities are $28,845.

Full UMN Twin Cities Design & Applied Arts Report

#2

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Minneapolis, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 for the Best Vallue Design Schools for a Master’s in Minnesota For Those Making Over $110k. This small school is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it awarded 6 masters’s design degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MCAD, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Design & Applied Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Minneapolis College of Art and Design are $41,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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