Salary Survey Report for Job: Graphic Artist / Designer

The Visual Communication Certificate is available to undergraduate students not enrolled in the BSIT program who wish to expand their technical knowledge using software tools for Visual Communication. Students enrolling in the Visual Communication Certificate will learn the graphic design and technology tools to create visual communications that are relevant to organizations. Students in the Visual Communication Certificate will develop a diverse portfolio of rich media that can be used in Web sites, advertising, corporate reports, business presentations, instructional materials, animated movies and electronic publications that fulfill business and training needs.

Courses include Computers and Information Processing, Image Editing, Web Design, Electronic Publishing, Instructional Design and Multimedia Development.

The AIU Online Associate of Arts in Business Administration degree program, with a concentration in Visual Communication, is designed to prepare students interested in pursuing careers in graphic design. The curriculum combines the business skills of AIU Online's AABA with specific skills needed in the field of visual communication and also provides a seamless transition into the AIU Online Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Visual Communication.

Students enrolling in this career-focused curriculum will learn to apply design principles and techniques to the creation of visual solutions. Also covered is the usage of research techniques and problem-solving skills in the creation of projects and the application of business and financial skills in the field of visual communication.

At the completion of this degree program, successful students will have gained the knowledge necessary to pursue such careers as: Graphic Design Assistant, Advertising Specialist, Community Arts Development Associate, Gallery Assistant and many other creative, in-demand careers.

The Education Media Design & Technology Master's Degree program tailors to creating and developing future leaders in the education and corporate training fields. This 12-month intensive program spans across several areas of technology, education, design, corporate training, and theoretical perspectives.

Whether your passion is in the k-12 setting as an educator, or a corporate trainer wanting to learn new strategies to engage your audience, this multi-faceted degree will provide a foundation necessary to meet the needs of the students and workers of today and tomorrow! This degree will give you hands on experience of creating, tailoring and implementing effective uses of technology in your workplace.

This program is not your typical education technology masters degree. You will create emergent technologies (movies, podcasts, videocasts, games and much more) that you can implement instantly in your work environment. This type of master's degree sets the bar for online programs as well as engaging, effective 21st century curriculum. This degree prepares you for delivering engaging teaching and training, along with a cutting edge Real World Education.

Devry University offers a Associate degree in Web Graphic Design. With the dramatic growth of the Internet and exciting technological advances in the design field, web design degree holders are uniquely poised to take advantage of career opportunities in a huge variety of areas, including advertising, marketing, technical communications, publishing and training. In fact, through 2014, graphic designers are expected to have access to the most new jobs of all design professionals; and those with web design experience and programming skills will have the best opportunities.

With a web design degree, you’ll gain both the design and technical skills and the experience to stand out in a field where jobs are growing and competition is fierce. As you earn your associate degree in web graphic design, you’ll learn to develop all types of graphic media — web pages, marketing collateral, advertising, instructional material and multimedia projects — through a collaborative approach. By mastering key software applications, fundamental design principles, web content management and animation, you’ll be prepared to design, illustrate, compile and produce visual solutions for communications, especially for the Internet.

If you want to become a digital specialist, you've come to the right place to get your career off the ground. Through the diploma program in Digital Design, you will learn design fundamentals, lettering and typography, and graphic design. You'll create color composites and renderings, and get the introduction you need to using computer applications and sophisticated software as design tools. You will use these tools to create high-quality layouts and designs.

The Digital Design Program provides you with a solid foundation for career growth. You'll be qualified for entry-level positions, including production or computer artist at newspapers, advertising agencies or television stations.

This program will teach you to apply theory, research, creativity, and problem-solving skills to a variety of technology applications in order to improve performance. You will also learn how to develop the analysis, design, and evaluation skills to assess, create, and manage training materials. These skills combined will offer you the ability to support technological advancement and training in educational institutions and corporate training classrooms. Through your coursework, you will gain the experience needed to be efficient and effective using technology and multimedia tools.

Though distance learning is not a new concept, using the Internet for delivering course content is.  With the Online Instruction specialization, you will learn from an experienced leader in creating online content development and instructional delivery and how to productively and innovatively deliver courses or training modules using online delivery methods. You will gain effective strategies for engaging and teaching distance learners and be able to assess student-learning outcomes in online environments.