2025 Best Industrial Design Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
83Product Design Degrees Awarded
Industrial Design is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #304 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for industrial design students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 83 degrees in industrial design annually.
The product design program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Industrial Design rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for industrial design schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The product design school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Industrial Design Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
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Best Schools for Industrial Design in the Rocky Mountains Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the product design degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Product Design
University of Utah is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in industrial design. U of U is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City. A Best Colleges rank of #213 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means U of U is a great university overall.
There were approximately 33 industrial design students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent data year.
Brigham Young University - Provo is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in industrial design. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Provo. This university ranks 3rd out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were approximately 16 industrial design students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Metropolitan State University of Denver is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in industrial design. MSU Denver is a large public university located in the large city of Denver. This university ranks 24th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 34 industrial design students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent data year.
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).
The product design program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Industrial Design rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for industrial design schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
