2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Design in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 1,792 people earned their degree in industrial design, making the major the 304th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 456 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 378 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 8 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree product design students.
Top 8 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Industrial Design in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region list. Savannah, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s product design degrees to 82 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Industrial Design at SCAD
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region. Clemson University is a public institution located in Clemson, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 96 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Full Clemson University Industrial Design Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Appalachian State University landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Boone, North Carolina, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Industrial Design at Appalachian State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region list. Georgia Tech is a public institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 61 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Read more about Industrial Design at Georgia Tech
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a public institution located in Lafayette, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Industrial Design at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Auburn University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Auburn University is a large school located in Auburn, Alabama that handed out 39 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Industrial Design at Auburn
Virginia Tech ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 28 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Industrial Design at Virginia Tech
North Carolina State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Southeast Region ranking. NC State is a large public school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 15 bachelors’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Industrial Design at NC State
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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
- *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.