by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Far Western US 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 Far Western US region, there were 265 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 industrial design graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in industrial design. That schools that top this list have a program in industrial design in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Far Western US Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree product design students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pacific Northwest College of Art. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Far Western US Region list. Pacific Northwest College of Art is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Portland, Oregon. It awarded 7 masters’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stanford University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Far Western US Region. Stanford is a fairly large school located in Stanford, California that handed out 0 masters’s product design degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Product Design Major in the Far Western US Region list. UW Seattle is a public institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 16 masters’s 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 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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