Design degrees do more than refine student's creative skills; they help turn those skills into a rewarding career. Students who earn design degrees are more likely to get hired by top companies, get promotions, earn higher salaries, and work as freelance designers or start their own businesses.

Get hired
Employers need interior designers with degrees to create unique and efficient work spaces, comfortable living spaces, and top quality vacation resorts. Employers are also looking for designers in the IT and animation industries, and only candidates with degrees are offered the top spots. In recent interior design news, top designers worked with the band the Black Eyed Peas to design rock star rooms for the latest Hard Rock Hotel and Condominium complex. There are thousands of projects like this taking place on a daily basis, and employers want the most qualified, educated designers. Also, Web designers recently developed a site, techpresident.com, that tracks the technology presidential candidates use, or don't use, to increase the effectiveness of their campaigns. Site creators are always looking for designers with degrees to create popular sites like techpresident.com. In fact, the Web design industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world.

Get promoted
Designers with degrees almost always get promoted first. They become the managers and the top executives of companies before people without a degree do. They also have the skills they need to work freelance jobs from home or start their own businesses. Employers also highly value people who earn their degrees online, because they know those students are motivated and organized, and that they can work with technology to communicate, learn and design. Designers often make between $75,000 and $100,000 or more per year, depending on the industry.

Get the skills
Designers who attend school at one of the many top quality online universities learn skills like computer-aided design, animation, advertising and marketing, and IT and visual communications. Classes are taught by top industry professionals who provide students with the latest and most relevant industry information. Instructors use streaming video and MP3 downloads to share class material, and students communicate with each other and with their instructors via instant chat, discussion boards and other e-learning tools. Online campuses offer everything traditional campuses offer, plus more. Educational, financial, and career services are available with the click of the mouse, and students learn from the comfort of their own home or local café anywhere they have an Internet connection.