2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Design in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Industrial Design is the 304th most popular major in the country with 1,792 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 66 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in industrial design. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their industrial design program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree product design students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Design in the Southwest Region

1

GateWay Community College
Phoenix, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, GateWay Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. GateWay Community College is a small school located in Phoenix, Arizona that handed out 2 associates’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Industrial Design at GateWay Community College

2

University of Advancing Technology
Tempe, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Advancing Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Advancing Technology is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s product design degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Industrial Design at University of Advancing Technology

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Industrial Design

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.