a bachelor's degree in graphic communications is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #99 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Graphic Communications Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 314 bachelor's degrees in graphic communications to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on graphic communications students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other graphic communications students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt graphic communications students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized graphic communications related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for graphic communications students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Graphic Communications Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in graphic communications has to check out DePaul University. DePaul is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the graphic communication program earn around $19,178 in the first couple years of working.
Columbia College Chicago is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in graphic communications. Columbia is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the city of Chicago.
Graphic Communications bachelor's degree recipients from Columbia College Chicago get an earnings boost of about $2,833 over the typical income of graphic communications majors.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team
