About This Data

Most Popular Schools for Commercial and Advertising Art Major & Degree Program

A program in the applied visual arts that prepares individuals to use artistic techniques to effectively communicate ideas and information to business and consumer audiences via illustrations and other forms of digital or printed media. Includes instruction in concept design, layout, paste-up, and techniques such as engraving, etching, silkscreen, lithography, offset, drawing and cartooning, painting, collage, and computer graphics.


Looking for online degree programs? Get the facts on accredited college degree programs online!

Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Wake Technical Community College 276 3% $4,268
2 Fashion Institute of Technology 230 6% $24,220
3 Sinclair Community College 154 3% $3,830
4 Macomb Community College 94 3% $5,015
5 Des Moines Area Community College 86 2% $14,992
6 CUNY New York City College of Technology 74 3% $8,484
7 Kent State University at Kent 72 1% $25,886
8 Pitt Community College 65 2% $3,530
9 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania 64 4% $27,890
10 SOWELA Technical Community College 63 3% $5,385
11 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 63 1% $27,476
12 CUNY Kingsborough Community College 58 2% $6,768
13 Alamance Community College 57 5% $6,322
14 Trident Technical College 57 2% $6,551
15 Fayetteville Technical Community College 56 1% $3,964
16 Central Community College 55 3% $13,200
17 Truckee Meadows Community College 53 2% $4,229
18 Collin County Community College District 53 2% $3,004
19 Advertising Art Educational Services DBA School of Advertising Art 52 100% $30,043
20 Columbus College of Art and Design 49 21% $49,834
21 Isothermal Community College 49 5% $4,192
22 San Jacinto Community College 48 1% $3,114
23 Cuyahoga Community College District 46 1% $5,136
24 Central Piedmont Community College 46 1% $4,429
25 The Art Institute of Pittsburgh-Online Division 44 6% $15,540
26 Los Angeles Trade Technical College 43 2% $3,137
27 Montgomery College 39 1% $6,998
28 Tunxis Community College 38 6% $5,664
29 Washtenaw Community College 35 1% $3,528
30 Tulsa Technology Center 35 2% N/A
31 South Plains College 34 2% $11,935
32 Wilkes Community College 32 4% $4,272
33 Chattanooga State Community College 32 2% $5,563
34 Oklahoma City Community College 31 2% $5,659
35 Portland Community College 31 1% $6,029
36 El Paso Community College 30 1% $4,089
37 Boise State University 30 1% $23,076
38 Pennsylvania College of Art and Design 28 48% $38,782
39 Mercer County Community College 28 3% $5,626
40 Passaic County Community College 27 2% $6,670
41 Seattle University 27 1% $61,608
42 Bergen Community College 26 1% $5,900
43 Guilford Technical Community College 26 1% $3,709
44 Seattle Central College 25 2% $4,494
45 Mohawk Valley Community College 25 2% $19,477
46 Metropolitan Community College Area 25 1% $4,455
47 Bismarck State College 24 2% $14,676
48 New Mexico State University-Dona Ana 24 2% $3,020
49 Robert Morris University Illinois 23 2% $48,690
50 The Sage Colleges 23 3% $46,600
51 University of North Georgia 22 1% $20,492
52 School of Visual Arts 22 2% $66,768
53 Columbia College Chicago 22 1% $45,644
54 University of Minnesota-Duluth 22 1% $24,614
55 Onondaga Community College 22 2% $17,310
56 Rowan-Cabarrus Community College 21 1% $4,426
57 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 21 0% $30,552
58 University of Central Missouri 20 1% $19,953
59 Middlesex Community College 20 2% $7,310
60 Bucks County Community College 20 2% $6,213
61 California University of Pennsylvania 19 1% $26,644
62 Southwest Tennessee Community College 19 2% $5,755
63 University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College 18 2% $7,210
64 Greenville Technical College 18 1% $5,780
65 Syracuse University 17 0% $70,636
66 Concord University 17 4% $21,243
67 Spokane Falls Community College 17 1% $4,681
68 Keene State College 17 2% $27,988
69 Nazareth College 17 2% $50,235
70 Alexandria Technical & Community College 16 2% $6,616
71 National Park College 16 2% $5,250
72 Moore Norman Technology Center 16 3% N/A
73 Miami University-Oxford 16 0% $33,229
74 The College of Saint Rose 16 1% $48,588
75 Delaware County Community College 16 1% $7,270
76 College for Creative Studies 16 6% $59,610
77 Nassau Community College 16 0% $7,680
78 Rochester Institute of Technology 16 0% $57,401
79 Oklahoma Christian University 16 2% $36,605
80 Art Center College of Design 15 3% $47,416
81 Delaware Technical Community College-Terry 15 1% $6,504
82 Pennsylvania College of Technology 15 1% $33,152
83 Drake University 15 1% $56,724
84 Dominican University 15 1% $46,175
85 Nash Community College 14 2% $4,032
86 Lawson State Community College 14 2% $14,800
87 Springfield Technical Community College 14 1% $6,288
88 Henry Ford College 13 1% $4,636
89 Mid-Plains Community College 13 3% $13,040
90 Woodbury University 13 3% $56,497
91 Argosy University-The Art Institute of California-San Diego 13 5% $20,565
92 Instituto Tecnologico de Puerto Rico-Recinto de San Juan 13 6% $2,105
93 Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City 13 0% $4,720
94 Surry Community College 13 2% $4,240
95 Coastal Alabama Community College 12 2% $16,436
96 Community College of Baltimore County 12 0% $5,706
97 Arkansas State University-Main Campus 12 0% $23,101
98 AI Miami International University of Art and Design 12 3% $19,104
99 Hussian College School of Art 12 50% $22,890
100 East Central College 12 2% $4,092

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Commercial and Advertising Art program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.