2024 Best Colleges for Industrial and Product Design

SUMMARY

A degree in Industrial and Product Design is a valuable choice and frequently a critical first step for scholars hoping to enter a career as an industrial designer, an industrial product designer, or an user experience specialist. Interestingly, industrial and product design is a ​unique major coming in at the 170th most popular degree. Last academic year, there were 1,583 industrial and product design diplomas received. In-state tuition for industrial and product design at private universities is, on average, 3.6 times more pricey than their public fellows.

With just 62 schools having programs for this degree there might be limited options as to the institutions you can choose from. If you are hoping to immerse yourself with other industrial and product design majors, consider looking at institutions in New York which have the most undergrads admitted to industrial and product design annually. More generally, the top region to get a degree in industrial and product design is in the Great Lakes region with College for Creative Studies, University of Cincinnati-Main Campus, and University of Wisconsin-Stout best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection of the best conference to study industrial and product design is the Atlantic Coast Conference with Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, Clemson University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University representing the conference. Based on our list of the best colleges, our choice for the best college for industrial and product design is Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus.

The objectively 'best' school is not necessarily the 'best' school for you. There might be many more facets to think about when deciding on college. Things like campus amenities, transportation services, and food might definitely change your inclinations of where to go to college. Here at authority.org, we've weighed the pros and cons for you. If, as an example, you are interested in which industrial and product design college is home to the top campus, the answer is Syracuse University. If, for example, you are mostly interested in which school has the best campus, then we have a whole page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through professor reviews, government databases, student reviews, and more in order to compare all U.S. majors in an unbiased and informative way. You can find our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life&nbsphere and our selection of the school with the best student life for industrial and product design is Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus. Curious why? Continue reading to find out more about Authority's top recommendations. Some of our picks just might surprise you.

If price is a major factor in your decisions, you might consider avoiding Syracuse University. Syracuse University&nbspappears to be our most expensive school for industrial and product design, at least regarding out of state attendance. We do have a page for the most expensive&nbspuniversities that could put the expense of Syracuse University&nbspinto perspective. For more context, you might want to know that industrial and product design is the 215th most expensive program in the nation, with an average expense of $29,300. On a broader scale, the most expensive state for industrial and product design in the country is Pennsylvania at Drexel University and Thomas Jefferson University, the primary schools in Pennsylvania, of $52,146 and $40,680. To zoom out even further, the most costly region for industrial and product design is the Mid East region which is best demonstrated with Pratt Institute-Main with a cost of $51,754, Syracuse University with a cost of $50,616, and Drexel University with a cost of $52,146.

Our cheapest region for industrial and product design is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by Metropolitan State University of Denver with a cost of $20,009, Brigham Young University-Provo with a cost of $5,790, and University of Utah with a cost of $26,017. In better news, the most affordable school for industrial and product design is Fashion Institute of Technology. Authority's full list of the most affordable colleges can be explored here.

In-state learners can expect to pay in the neighborhood of $11,000 for a degree in industrial and product design. That price swells by a lot to an average of $26,600 for an out-of-state public-school student. On that note, our choice for the school with the best value for industrial and product design: Thomas Jefferson University. Through this link you can see our comprehensive list about the colleges we see as being the best value&nbspin general. Do know, this section is based on out-of-state tuition costs. A discussion of value changes when in-state tuition is considered, but we do not know where you live (and are not trying to collect that kind of data).

Earnings for industrial and product design majors vary a lot, but two-years after finishing the degree students will regularly make around $58,200. There is a lot of variation in earnings; top earners can bring in up to $90,600. Even right out of university, the lowest end jobs within the industrial and product design field earn $37,100, which is an alright wage. The highest earning graduates from industrial and product design studied at Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus&nbspand if you are looking for universities with all of the highest earning graduates, Authority has that too.

The overall diversity of industrial and product design stands decent, being within the 71st percentile of all programs. The university with the highest composite diversity for industrial and product design is The New School&nbspand here you can find our comprehensive list of the schools which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of the Industrial and Product Design major only is within the 63rd percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is greater than financial diversity, in the 64th percentile. White undergraduates compose the largest proportion at 54% of students majoring in industrial and product design. Additionally, 56% of students pursuing an industrial and product design major are men.

The median rating for industrial and product design professors is 4 stars, a score that is exactly the average for every major; which is a fine. If you want the most popular industrial and product design professor in the country, look no further than Gaston Arellano at Barry University. It might come as a shock, but the top rated instructors of industrial and product design from student rankings come from Barry University. As we including data other than simply rankings it becomes clear that the school possessing the overall best professors for industrial and product design is Purdue University-Main Campus. You can find more detail on our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, along with some of the best examples of instructors in the U.S.

Finally, the hardest university to get into for industrial and product design is Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus. While we are unsure why you would be interested, we have an extensive page of the hardest colleges to get into. Although, we hope you understand that approaching academics with a lens mainly built on superlatives can cause problems. We hope you read our other pages on individual colleges and peruse some of our insightful background articles on useful things to look out for as you progress with your college search.