2025 Best Industrial Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Industrial Design is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #187 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Industrial Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 22 bachelor's degrees in industrial design during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to industrial design students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other industrial design students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized industrial design related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for industrial design students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Industrial Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Industrial Design in Illinois

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in industrial design.

Top Illinois Schools for a Bachelor's in Product Design

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

4 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in industrial design. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Champaign.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in industrial design needs to take a look at University of Illinois at Chicago. Located in the large city of Chicago, UIC is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from University of Illinois at Chicago

Best Industrial Design Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Industrial Design Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	76
Ohio	612	132
Indiana	535	9
Wisconsin	435	44

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Industrial Design Related Rankings by Major

Industrial Design is one of 9 different types of Design & Applied Arts programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Product Design

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Graphic Design	328
Game & Interactive Media Design	118
Fashion Design	75
Interior Design	64
Illustration	64
Visual Communications	47
Commercial & Advertising Art	17

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.