So I am currently going for my Associate Degree in Graphic Design and my local community college (Waukesha County Tech.) and am trying to decide which program to double major in…which of the three situations below do you think will give me the best hand in the job market:
A.) 3 Years at WCTC and 2 Years at Seattle Pacific University (where I intend to transfer for my BFA completion):
Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design [ x ] - wctc + spu.
Associate Degree in Web Design / Programming [ x ] - wctc.
B.) 2 Years at WCTC and 2 Years at Seattle Pacific University:
Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design [ x ] - wctc + spu.
Associates Degree in Marketing [ x ] wctc.
C.) 3-4 Years at WCTC and 2-3 Years at Seattle Pacific University:
(Total Years dependent on how much the course programs transfer and/or overlap)
Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design [ x ] - wctc + spu.
Bachelors Degree in Marketing [ x ] - wctc + spu.
Or, would you combine the BFA in Graphic Design with something else, like Business?
My technical college also offers certificates, which are tacked on to your associate degrees, and count as ‘experience with a certain program’, (like Marketing or Business or Photography) but do not result in a secondary degree.
So, you could major in Graphic Design with a certificate in Marketing, or you could double major and leave with Associate Degrees in both Graphic Design and Marketing and choose which (if not both) you would like to advance to a Bachelors at a 4-year University. Although I don’t intend on wasting time with certificates and added labels…I would rather have an additional degree.
I’ve just heard from multiple parties that if you intend to major in Graphic Design, majoring in Web Design can be very beneficial to employers, although I’ve also heard that a Graphic Design major is better off majoring in Marketing & Advertising if they intend to add to their skill set, as a marketing degree is valuable to more employers / companies out there than the programming skills needed to code and create websites. (In other words, leave the programming to the programmers -if a company needs both a Graphic Designer and a Web Designer, they would rather hire two different people than a Graphic Designer without an additional degree in Marketing.) Or rather, do you think they would hire a single employee with degrees in Graphic and Web design rather than two people for something that could be a single person job?
Just looking for your opinions and suggestions here - I greatly appreciate it!