2025 Best Commercial & Advertising Art Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in commercial & advertising art, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #286 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Commercial & Advertising Art Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 17 bachelor's degrees in commercial & advertising art during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on commercial & advertising art students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other commercial & advertising art students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized commercial & advertising art related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for commercial & advertising art students working on their bachelor's degree.

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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 Commercial & Advertising Art Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Commercial & Advertising Art in Illinois

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in commercial & advertising art.

Top Illinois Schools for a Bachelor's in Commercial and Advertising Art

1

American Academy of Art
Chicago, IL

4 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in commercial & advertising art needs to take a look at American Academy of Art. Located in the city of Chicago, The Academy is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in commercial & advertising art from American Academy of Art

2

Dominican University
River Forest, IL

6 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Dominican University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in commercial & advertising art. Dominican U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of River Forest.More information about a bachelor’s in commercial & advertising art from Dominican University

Best Commercial & Advertising Art Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Commercial & Advertising Art Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	19
Ohio	612	141
Indiana	535	17

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Rankings in Majors Related to Commercial and Advertising Art

One of 9 majors within the Design & Applied Arts area of study, Commercial & Advertising Art has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Commercial and Advertising Art

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Graphic Design	328
Game & Interactive Media Design	118
Fashion Design	75
Interior Design	64
Illustration	64
Visual Communications	47
Industrial Design	22

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.