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2022 Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
104 Degrees Awarded
$30,900 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master's in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

Industrial Design is the 290th most popular major in the country with 1,879 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 485 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 104 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in industrial design. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great industrial design programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the industrial design program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree product design students.

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Design in the Southeast Region

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. Clemson is a large school located in Clemson, South Carolina that handed out 10 masters’s product design degrees in 2019-2020.

Clemson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Industrial Design Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Clemson University are $23,246, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Clemson University Industrial Design Report

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Georgia Tech is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 masters’s product design degrees to qualified students.

Georgia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Industrial Design Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Georgia Tech are $31,334.

Full Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus Industrial Design Report

#3

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s product design degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

NC State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Industrial Design Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at North Carolina State University are $28,999, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Industrial Design at North Carolina State University

#4

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #4 spot on the list. Auburn University is located in Auburn, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 masters’s product design degrees to qualified students.

Auburn not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Industrial Design Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Auburn University are $31,956.

Full Auburn University Industrial Design Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Savannah College of Art and Design. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Product Design Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. SCAD is located in Savannah, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 45 masters’s product design degrees to qualified students.

SCAD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Industrial Design Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Savannah College of Art and Design are $38,975.

Full SCAD Industrial Design Report

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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