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Art and Design Schools in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has nineteen art and design schools within its city limits. University of Pennsylvania, the highest ranked school in the city with an art and design program, has a total student population of 24,599. It is the 5th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Pennsylvania.

Art and Design students from Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 460 employed electrical and electronics drafters earning an average salary of $54,440. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this area earn $48,270/yr and there are 160 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.089 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators, and 0.251/1000 are held by electrical and electronics drafters.

Of the 19 art and design schools in Philadelphia, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Saint Joseph's University comes out as the most expensive ($34,548/yr) for art and design students, with Community College of Philadelphia as the lowest, reported at only $6,012/yr.

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