Delaware contains eight schools that offer art and design programs. Delaware State University, the highest-ranking art and design school in DE, has a total student population of 3,609 and is the 639th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 8 art and design schools in Delaware, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Delaware College of Art and Design comes out as the most expensive ($22,472/yr), with Delaware Technical and Community College-Stanton-Wilmington as the lowest recorded at only $4,849/yr.
Art and Design students from Delaware 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 Delaware alone, there are 120 employed electrical and electronics drafters earning an average yearly salary of $60,650. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this state earn $133,280/yr and there are employed.
Also, within the art and design schools in Delaware, the average student population is 2,228 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from art and design, there are 540 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,476 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,732, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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