2025 Best Industrial Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in industrial design, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #187 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 7 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Industrial Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 226 bachelor's degrees in industrial design to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Industrial Design School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of industrial design for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on industrial design students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of industrial design students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• 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.

More Ways to Rank Industrial Design Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Industrial Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Industrial Design in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in industrial design.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Product Design

1

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

37 Annual Graduates

Virginia Tech is a good decision for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in industrial design. Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from Virginia Tech

2

Auburn University
Auburn, AL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

37 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in industrial design needs to take a look at Auburn University. Auburn is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Auburn.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from Auburn University

3

Clemson University
Clemson, SC

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

79 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Clemson University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in industrial design. Clemson is a very large public university located in the midsize suburb of Clemson.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from Clemson University

4

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

19 Annual Graduates

North Carolina State University is a good decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in industrial design. NC State is a very large public university located in the city of Raleigh.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from North Carolina State University

5

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, GA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

6

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

30 Annual Graduates

Located in the town of Boone, Appalachian State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from Appalachian State University

7

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the midsize city of Lafayette, UL Lafayette is a public university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in industrial design from University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Best Industrial Design Colleges by State

Explore the best industrial design colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
North Carolina	453	54
Georgia	453	143
Virginia	421	28
South Carolina	370	96
Alabama	320	39
Louisiana	306	18

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Rankings in Majors Related to Product Design

One of 9 majors within the Design & Applied Arts area of study, Industrial Design has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Graphic Design	941
Interior Design	867
Illustration	633
Visual Communications	530
Other Design & Applied Arts	386
Fashion Design	318
Game & Interactive Media Design	118
Commercial Photography	38
Commercial & Advertising Art	33

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.