If you're seeking a degree in woodworking, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #330 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Woodworking Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 435 degrees in woodworking to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Woodworking Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of woodworking degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Rhode Island School of Design is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in woodworking. Located in the midsize city of Providence, RISD is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
After graduation, woodworking degree recipients usually make around $19,151 at the beginning of their careers.
It is hard to beat Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology if you want to pursue a degree in woodworking. Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is a small public college located in the small city of Lancaster.
Woodworking degree recipients from Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology earn a boost of about $10,288 over the average earnings of woodworking graduates.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
