10 Best Graphic Design Schools in the US

High five! You have made up your mind to pursue your study in graphic design. The next step is to choose which graphic design school in the USA would suit you best. One of these 10 best graphic design schools might have the school criteria that you are looking for. Click on the link provided for each school for more information on application, requirements, curriculums, and others. 

Graphic design school is one of the education routes that you could take to become a graphic designer.

Rhode Island School of Design

Program offers: 

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design- 4-year undergraduate program
• Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design- 2 and 3-year graduate program

Curriculum includes:

• Design for publishing
• Package Graphics
• Motion, Sound & Vision
• Reframing the poster
• Virtual Space and Interactivity With Unity

Parsons School of Design at the New School

Program offers: 

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design - 4 years program
• Master of Professional Studies program in Communication Design -1 year program
• Associate of Applied Science in Communication Design - 2 years (or less) program

Curriculum includes:

• Interaction Design & Coding
• Design History & Practice
• Visual Cultures
• Typography & Interaction
• Professional Practices & Portfolio
  
  

Pratt Institute

Program offers: 

• Communications Design, BFA (Emphasis in Graphic Design)- 4-year program
• Graphic Design, AOS - 2-year program
• Graphic Design/Illustrations, AAS- 2-year program

Curriculum includes:

•  UI/UX Interactive Media
•  Light, Color, and Design
• Advertising Design
• Image as Communication
• Branding and Messaging

Yale University School of Art

Program offers: 

• Master of Fine Arts Degree(MFA)- 2 years minimum
  

Curriculum includes:

•  Expression, Structure, and Sequence: Typography
•  Programming as Writing
• Communicating with Time, Motion, and Sound
• Letterform Design
• Mobile Computing

Maryland Institute College of Art

Program offers: 

• Undergraduate Graphic Design Major - 3-year program
• Undergraduate Graphic Design Studio Minor
• Graphic Design Graduate Program, MFA - 2-year program
• Graphic Design Graduate Program, M.A. - Less than a 2-year program

Curriculum includes:

• Drawing: Tradition & Innovation
• Fashion Graphics
• Sustainable Graphic Design
• Design for Music
• Product Design & Prototyping

Rochester Institute of Technology

Program offers: 

• Graphic Design, BFA - 4-year program

Curriculum includes:

• History of Graphic Design
• Professional Practices
• Experiential Graphic Design
• Graphic Design Capstone
• Interactive Design

ArtCenter College of Design

Program offers: 

• Undergraduate Graphic Design
• Graduate Graphic Design - 2-year program or 3-year program

Curriculum includes:

• Narrative Sketching
• Art of Research
• Transmedia
• Generative Media
• Photo for Graphic Design

University of Southern California

Program offers: 

• BFA Design & BA Art - 4-year program
• MFA Design Program - 2-year program
  
  

Curriculum includes:

• Drawing & Illustration
• Artistic Media
• Communication Design
• 3D Design
• Critical Theory Seminars

School of Visual Arts New York City

Program offers: 

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design- 4 year-program

Curriculum includes:

• Foundations of Visual Computing
• Designer as Image Maker
• Advanced Advertising
• Design for Social Change
• Toys and Games

Virginia Commonwealth University

Program offers: 

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design- 1 year (Art Foundation program) + 3- year program
• Master of Fine Arts in Design with a concentration in visual communications- 2- year program

Curriculum includes:

• Design Activism
• Book Arts
• Research Methods in Visual Communications
• Web Design
• Experimental Letterpress