Utah contains 35 schools that offer art and design programs. University of Utah, the highest-ranking art and design school in UT, has a total student population of 29,284 and is the 129th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 35 art and design schools in Utah, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Stevens Henager College-Logan comes out as the most expensive ($46,580/yr), with Mountainland Applied Technology College as the lowest recorded at only $1,568/yr.
Art and Design students from Utah 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 Utah alone, there are employed electrical and electronics drafters earning an average yearly salary of $49,810. Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators in this state earn $40,620/yr and there are 110 employed.
Also, within the art and design schools in Utah, the average student population is 3,744 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from art and design, there are 2052 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 1,639 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $3,769, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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