<p>University of Cincinnati
Pratt Institute
Kansas State University
Cornell University
Arizona State University
University of Oregon
Auburn University
University of Texas at Austin
Washington State University
California College of the Arts (tied with University of Florida)
University of Florida (tied with California College of the Arts)</p>
<p>Undergraduate Architecture Programs</p>
<p>Cornell University
University of Cincinnati
Rice University
California Polytechnic State U., San Luis Obispo
Syracuse University
Kansas State University
Rhode Island School of Design
University of Texas at Austin
Carnegie Mellon University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</p>
<p>Graduate Architecture Programs</p>
<p>Harvard University
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University (tied for 4th with MIT)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (tied for 4th with Columbia)
University of Cincinnati
University of California, Berkeley
University of Virginia
Rice University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</p>
<p>US News does not rank Interior Design MFA programs. It does rank some other specialities such as industrial design, painting, ceramics, graphic design, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.</p>
<p>I wonder whether the Interior Design rankings that Cama posted above from Design Intelligence refer to graduate or undergraduate programs. Hopefully Cama will chime in here to clarify.</p>
<p>The Interior Design rankings are for undergraduate programs.
Mackinaw,
Have you checked out the cite for Core77? It is great for Industrial Design schools and professionals. <a href="http://www.core77.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.core77.com/</a> (your D)</p>
<p>LoveofGod,
Yes schools have Masters programs in interior design I know Pratt does (it is acutally a MS) and probably some of the other schools on the design intelligence list do as well.</p>
<p>worried_mom, I am not aware of any rankings of undergraduate Industrial Design (ID) programs. However, US News rates the top MFA programs in ID and this seems to be what some people go by. The order is 1. Art Center College of Design, 2. RISD, 3. (tied) CMU, Cranbook, 5. Pratt. These are not, of course, the only decent ID programs. But they're the only ones that USNews puts into their list for ID. Their list for some other specialties is longer, so I assume that the fact that they list just 5 in ID implies that there is some "separation" between the reputations of these 5 compared with other ID programs.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, Mackinaw and Cama. We were already familiar with the core77 site, because my son used it as a starting point to put together his initial list of schools. His high school guidance counselor doesn't know what ID is -- much less where you can study it! Of course, I'm pretty much in the same boat. I have no background in art or design, so the college application process (especially the portfolio reviews!) has been a real learning experience for me over the past few months. Even though I'm not a great fan of "rankings" (like USN&WR, PR, etc.), it would be nice to be able to get some info about the relative reputations, value, etc. about design schools, but there's nothing out there. </p>
<p>btw, I'm worried about EVERYTHING -- just my nature! -- but mostly about my oldest son, who is the typical "fails to live up to his potential" type!</p>
<p>Worried_Mom, many of us are in the same boat. Before my daughter declared after her sophomore year in h.s. that she wanted to go to art school for college, we were clueless about which schools were strong, the different options for study in art school and other types of college, and the admissions process. But we did what we could to pick up information from the web, artists, our own kids, relatives and friends, teachers, and so on. My daughter did end up majoring in ID at RISD but when she applied she didn't have a preference for one major over another. And we learned about the portfolio review process by trial and error, so to speak (see the thread on Portfolios for some information).</p>
<p>Hello Cama, I'm just curious, I'm currently at the Bartlett in London, and did my undergrad degree in barnard/columbia university's combined architecture program. I was recently accepted into Princeton's MArch program, but do you know why that Princeton might not have been considered for DI's rankings?
Let me know if you get the chance. Thanks so much!
Sincerely, adoptme</p>
<p>Can't address the previous two comments but would like to say that the DI rankings appear to jump around quite a bit from year to year (from what I know). I suspect that the annual rankings are much less stable and reliable than they should be simply because their samples of respondents are not consistent (possibly because they are not random, not stratified, or are too small). It would be much better if they combined the rankings from multiple years, such as 3 years. Program quality seldom changes markedly from year to year.</p>
<p>Hi...
i too have been looking for graduate programs in Interior Design and these are the collges that i shortlisted:
1. Pratt Institute
2. Academy of Art university
3. Savannah College of Art and design
4. New york School of Interior Design
I also applied to Suffolk University and Drexel University.
I hope this helps you.</p>