2025 Best Industrial Design Schools in Wisconsin

If you plan on majoring in industrial design, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #304 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Industrial Design Schools in Wisconsin ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 51 degrees in industrial design annually.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Industrial Design Schools List

Pick Your Industrial Design Degree Level

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 Schools in Wisconsin list to help you make the college decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for Industrial Design in Wisconsin

The schools below may not offer all types of product design degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Wisconsin Schools in Product Design

1

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
Milwaukee, WI

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

7.1% Growth in Graduates

It is difficult to beat Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design if you wish to pursue a degree in industrial design. MIAD is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Milwaukee.More information about a degree in industrial design from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

2

University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

35 Product Design Degrees Awarded

11.4% Growth in Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Wisconsin - Stout if you wish to pursue a degree in industrial design. Located in the distant town of Menomonie, UW - Stout is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a degree in industrial design from University of Wisconsin - Stout

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
Ohio	939	132
Michigan	915	89
Illinois	870	83
Indiana	737	9

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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.

Majors Similar to Product Design

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Graphic Design	332
Interior Design	161
Game & Interactive Media Design	81
Illustration	78
Visual Communications	53
Commercial Photography	25
Other Design & Applied Arts	9
Fashion Design	8

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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.