by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Rhode Island” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 36,323 people earned their degree in design & applied arts, making the major the 36th most popular in the United States. In , design & applied arts graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $32,210 and had an average of $24,297 in loans still to pay off.
Across Rhode Island, there were 179 design & applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,141 and $23,558 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 43 design & applied arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,152 and $14,678 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their design & applied arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Rhode Island” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island associate degree design students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Design Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, New England Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and it awarded 43 associates’s design degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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