North Dakota Creative Arts, Design and Fashion Degrees

Arts, Design, Fashion Degrees: North Dakota Career Colleges

Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in North Dakota offering Arts, Design, Fashion degrees.

From runway to edit bay: art and design degrees: design courses enable you to pursue fashion design, interior design, graphic design, and more.

Thanks to the rise of online colleges, the lines between extremely prestigious universities and second or third tier universities are beginning to blur. These days, more and more people are earning powerful degrees from distance learning universities from all over the world. In this area, North Dakota has been making huge strides. Just 10 or 15 years ago, colleges in the "Rough Rider State" had a difficult time competing with rivals from other states. Because of online colleges however, this is no longer the case. North Dakota is quick climbing up the ranks, and may some day overtake more established contenders.

Listing of Arts, Design, Fashion Degrees offered in North Dakota:

Career Colleges: North Dakota Arts, Design, Fashion Programs

From runway to edit bay: art and design degrees

Art and design schools and colleges offer degree programs that include photography, fashion, graphics and interiors. In general, you will study principles, such as:

Using negative and positive space
Black, white and gray design elements
Creating light and shadow
Graphics styles and fonts
Color theory
Art and design history
Drawing

These classes are applicable to most degree programs in the field.

The art of technology

Computer aided design (CAD) programs enable working professionals to create, review and revise designs more efficiently than drawing and revising by hand.
Concentrations in digital media include computerized animation and video game design.
Digital film production techniques are used for filming, editing and audio editing for film and TV.

Fashion and interior design

Fashion and interior design careers focus on the media of textiles and other raw materials used for clothing, accessories, furniture and home decor. Although there are relatively few successful haute couture or name brand designers, degrees with concentrations in fashion or interiors can lead to careers in clothing and furniture boutiques, department stores or major manufacturers.

Average national earnings for art and design grads

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the following median annual salaries as of 2009:

Fashion designers: $64,530
Film and video editors: $50,930
Graphic designers: $43,500
Interior designers: $46,280
Multimedia artists and animators $58,510
Photographers: $29,130

Today's degree programs come in online and traditional formats. Research your career goals to locate schools with locations and career departments that are skilled in matching graduates to employers that meet your professional interests.

Author: Karen Lawson

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