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Art and Design Schools in Georgia

Georgia contains 103 schools that offer art and design programs. Emory University, the highest-ranking art and design school in GA, has a total student population of 12,930 and is the 30th highest ranked school in America.

Of the 103 art and design schools in Georgia, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Omnitech Institute comes out as the most expensive ($44,240/yr), with Altamaha Technical College as the lowest recorded at only $6,031/yr.

Art and Design students from Georgia 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 Georgia alone, there are 800 employed electrical and electronics drafters earning an average yearly salary of $51,040. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this state earn $32,740/yr and there are 390 employed.

Also, within the art and design schools in Georgia, the average student population is 2,956 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 19 to 1. Aside from art and design, there are 5022 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,167 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,057, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.

Georgia Interesting Facts

Okefenokee Swamp encompasses over 400,000 acres of canals; moss draped cypress trees, and lily pad prairies providing sanctuaries for hundreds of species of birds and wildlife including several endangered species.
Cumberland Island National Seashore contains the ruins of Dungeness, the once magnificent Carnegie estate. In addition, wild horses graze among wind swept dunes.
The late John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his future wife stopped in Kingsland on the way to their marriage on Cumberland Island.
Historic Saint Marys Georgia is the second oldest city in the nation.
The City of Savanna was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. It sailed from Georgia.

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