2,910 Creative Arts and Design Bachelors Degree Programs in USA

SCI-Arc’s B.Arch program is a five-year Bachelor of Architecture professional degree program, emphasizing design excellence and intellectual breadth through a liberal arts education.

SCAD’s Furniture Design program equips you with industry-leading skills, advanced software, and hands-on experience in the 45,000-square-foot Gulfstream Center for Design. Learn from expert faculty and bring your concepts to life, preparing for a successful career in furniture design.

More than a degree, the Concept Art and Illustration Career Program is your springboard to transform ideas into powerful visual worlds. Be part of a dual certification USA–Spain and build a portfolio that will open doors in film, video games, and professional illustration. Blended · Online · On-campus.

JMU School of Media Arts and Design graduates tell the best stories. We prepare students to serve as creative, reflective and highly skilled media producers and storytellers, sensitive to the personal and social impact of the messages they create and to the important role media can play in advancing the public interest. Graduates of the School of Media Arts and Design work in media or in media-related careers. Program concentrations allow students to pursue interests in journalism, digital video and cinema, creative advertising or interactive design. The major also prepares students for graduate study in mass communication, journalism, advertising, visual communication or digital production. SMAD’s 39-credit-hour requirement allows students to pursue minors and second majors, to strengthen their knowledge about the types of stories they want to tell.

The Bachelor of Arts in Interior Architecture and Design will give you hands-on experience and a well-rounded, faith-based education. You will be prepared to utilize space in a meaningful way with a degree through our co-op program with the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

The major in Graphic Arts and Design offers students job training in Graphic Design, coupled with training in visual art and marketing. Students in this major will be able to develop exciting graphic artwork that they can market, sell, and link to broad artistic principles. Graduates will be able to work professionally in education, healthcare, public, and private settings. Students in this major are required to take a minor.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design provides an in-depth study of the field of graphic design. The degree prepares students to enter a career in design, advertising, marketing, or other fields of visual communication. It is a creative practice that draws from a range of fields including visual arts, technology, psychology, sociology, and business. Graphic designers are strategic thinkers, problem solvers, and makers of visual stories that inform, advocate, and persuade.

This degree prepares students for employment in the computer gaming design and development field, within the commercial and federal sectors. The program's mix of liberal arts and technology satisfies an industry that demands academically rigorous technical expertise coupled with an understanding of the artistic and creative elements of the evolving medium. Mason's proximity to the nation's capital and to some of the gaming industry's giants also provides students with opportunities to secure an internship while studying.

The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fashion Design program is designed to offer qualified students the opportunity to prepare for professional positions as fashion designers, assistant designers, technical designers, stylists, fashion executives, and haute couture educators.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in visual arts is a professional degree that equips students with expertise in their area of focus that will better prepare them for graduate school and employment opportunities as an artist within creative industries. The areas of focus in the B.F.A. in Visual Arts are: Ceramics & Sculpture; Digital Arts; Drawing & Painting; Graphic Design; Photography; and Printmaking and Paper Arts. (Please note: the area of focus does not appear in the degree title, and all graduates of the program receive a B.F.A. in Visual Arts.)

Study Game Design and Video Game Art in an international degree program with dual certification USA–Spain. 1) Learn mechanic design, narrative, and user experience. 2) Create environments, characters, props, and playable levels. 3) Program prototypes, systems, and complete worlds for all genres.

Grounded in environmental design, the Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Design (BA-ARH-D) degree provides a strong undergraduate education while allowing the student to experience and gain skills in architectural design, art, architectural, and urban history and theory, fundamentals of sustainability, materials, building construction and structures, as well as advanced design representation tools. To study the world through the architectural lens is an opportunity to examine our culture through the spaces and buildings that we create.

The School of Fashion offers ten BFA degree programs, each designed to prepare you for work in the fashion industry. They are: Design, Knitwear Design, Textile Design, Costume Design, Footwear & Accessory Design, Fashion Styling, Fashion Product Development, Fashion Visual Merchandising, Fashion Merchandising, and Fashion Marketing. Students in these BFA programs may choose an emphasis in Fashion Design or 3D Design Pattern Making. Coursework combines excellence in design, artistic production, and innovative technology to provide students with the skills necessary to fully realize their creative visions.

The BFA program teaches students the creative and technical skills needed to thrive as career artists. Advanced instruction is offered in non-figurative and figurative fine art, including painting, sculpting, and printmaking. Our Sculpture department has one of the largest and most advanced facilities of its kind in North America, and our state-of-the-art printmaking facilities merge traditional tools with cutting-edge technology.

From fabric burnout to photographic screen printing to computer–assisted print designs, students in the BFA Textile Design program design and print on both fabric and paper using various print techniques and fabric manipulation. Students develop their drawing and color skills in course work that combines excellence in design, artistic vision, and innovative technology to provide students with the skills necessary to realize their creative visions fully. Students are encouraged to participate in industry competitions and internships. Senior students may collaborate with other fashion design or knitwear majors to produce a runway collection for the annual San Francisco Fashion Show.

Design. Model. Make an impact. Become a professional in 3D Graphic Design with dual certification USA–Spain and access to the global industry.

The BFA program provides students with a comprehensive education in the principles of modern web design and new media. Taught by a faculty that works in the San Francisco Bay Area creative industry, our students are provided a unique opportunity to learn from teachers immersed in the field. The curriculum focuses on visual design, user experience, design strategies, web design, and motion graphics.

The Film and Video Studies degree is the first multidisciplinary undergraduate degree in Virginia focusing on cinematic arts production and film theory and history with core courses in ethics, business, writing for the moving image, fiction, documentary, interactive storytelling, and episodic television.