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Art and Design Schools in Connecticut

Connecticut contains 44 schools that offer art and design programs. Wesleyan University, the highest-ranking art and design school in CT, has a total student population of 3,148 and is the 46th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 44 art and design schools in Connecticut, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Connecticut Culinary Institute-Suffield comes out as the most expensive ($36,544/yr), with Middlesex Community College as the lowest recorded at only $3,918/yr.

Art and Design students from Connecticut schools who go on to become designers, ad designers, advertising designers, commercial designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 8,900 people working as fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $50,630. Also, Electrical and electronics drafters make on average $54,800 per year and there are about 30,590 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Connecticut alone, there are 540 employed electrical and electronics drafters earning an average yearly salary of $58,480. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this state earn $61,790/yr and there are 60 employed.

Also, within the art and design schools in Connecticut, the average student population is 1,939 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 14 to 1. Aside from art and design, there are 2145 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,319 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,907, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Connecticut Interesting Facts

• The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878.
• The USS Nautilus - the world's first nuclear powered submarine was built in Groton in 1954.
• Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
• In 1705, copper was discovered in Simsbury. Later, the copper mine became the infamous New-Gate Prison of the Revolutionary War. Doctor Samuel Higley of Simsbury started the first copper coinage in America in 1737.
• The Scoville Memorial Library is the United States oldest public library. The library collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London. Patrons could borrow and return books on the third Monday of every third month. Fees were collected for damages, the most common being "greasing" by wax dripped from the candles by which the patrons read.

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