2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Graphic Design

GRAPHIC DESIGN DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Graphic design has mid-tier popularity among undergrad students. Each focus grants around 6,156 bachelor's degrees per annum; last May, 4,926 people earned a four-year degree in graphic design, making it the 81st most popular subject nationally. Southern New Hampshire University​ conferred more of those degrees than any other American school (284), and institutions in California handed out more degrees than any American State (435).

352 schools in the US offer an undergrad degree in graphic design; ergo, it will frequently not be easy to root out the right fit for you. Undergrad degrees in graphic design are 83.4% more widely available than the average major, making it the 64th most broadly available subject in the USA.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 96% of last spring's degrees in graphic design were undergraduate degrees; 4% were postgraduate degrees. Graphic design is the 242nd most popular grad degree in the country, with 226 degrees granted. For context, graphic design is 92% less popular among postgraduate students than the average subject.

In Total, 5,152 students received a bachelor's or higher in graphic design last May.

ONLINE GRAPHIC DESIGN DEGREES

422 of those 5,152 alumni (8.2%) went through comprehensively remote programs - 419 college students and 3 postgraduate students. As you've presumably noticed by now, among entirely online college students, graphic design is neither hugely popular nor astoundingly unpopular. It's the 61st most popular remote discipline with 13% less online students than the average subject. For graduate students, it is ranked 283rd, and is 99.5% under the nation's average (616).

Southern New Hampshire University​ awarded more online undergrad degrees in graphic design than any other institution in America (265).

Additionally, Colleges from New Hampshire conferred the most online undergrad degrees in graphic design last year (265). New Hampshire independently accounts for 63% of the field's remote students.

8.5% of all four-year degrees in graphic design are completed in an exclusively remote program, (1.3% for postgrad degrees). 9.03% of Independence University's​ last undergraduate class studied graphic design exclusively online, higher than any other American school. 39 students in their 432 student class earned an online four-year degree in graphic design. They offer 9 programs completely remote, and had 10,983 enrolled online undergraduates last fall. That's 100% of the student body.

Four-year degrees in graphic design are available remotely at 24 colleges across the country, making it the 64th most widely available remote major in the United States of America. 7% of schools conferring the degree even have a remote option, and 0% of the institutions awarding the degree remotely are public. The other 100% are private. Wisconsin leads the nation in providing online choices, with 4 of the programs based there.

If you want to study graphic design and have the disposition for self motivation, you should look at Southern New Hampshire University, as it has the 104th best graphic design program in the US. They also have an additional 83 degrees exclusively online, so you can explore classes in another subject. Further, there are 86,849 online college students enrolled, which is 93% of the total undergraduate population.

PARTIALLY ONLINE GRAPHIC DESIGN DEGREES

• 954 people last May completed bachelor's degrees in graphic design partially online
• Bachelor's degrees in graphic design are offered partially online at 300 institutions in the country
• Last May, 968 students completed a bachelor's or higher in graphic design partially online
• 7.95% of Laguna College of Art and Design's​ last undergraduate class majored in graphic design partially online, higher than any other institution in America
• Virtually all partially online degrees in graphic design last year were undergrad degrees; 1% were advanced degrees
• The average major is offered at nearly 154 colleges partially online

IN-PERSON GRAPHIC DESIGN DEGREES

• 3,548 people were conferred bachelor's degrees in graphic design exclusively in-person last May
• Graphic design is the 65th most universally available exclusively in-person undergraduate degree nationally
• Last spring, 3,758 people completed a bachelor's or higher in graphic design fully in-person
• CUNY Queens College​ awarded the most completely in-person bachelor's degrees in graphic design in the country (108)
• New York graduates more graphic design majors entirely in-person than any other state (385 undergrad degrees granted last year)
• 92.92% of all grad degrees in graphic design are earned comprehensively in-person