2025 Best Industrial Design Schools in North Carolina

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Industrial Design Schools in North Carolina ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 62 degrees in industrial design to qualified students.

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 North Carolina 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 North Carolina

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 North Carolina Schools in Product Design

1

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

16.7% Growth in Graduates

Any student who is interested in industrial design has to take a look at North Carolina State University. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a degree in industrial design from North Carolina State University

2

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

Bachelor's Degree Highest Degree Type

32 Product Design Degrees Awarded

Appalachian State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in industrial design. Appalachian State is a fairly large public university located in the town of Boone.More information about a degree in industrial design from Appalachian State University

Best Industrial Design Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Industrial Design Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Georgia	690	202
Virginia	630	28
South Carolina	530	99
Alabama	500	45
Louisiana	489	18

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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
Commercial & Advertising Art	577
Game & Interactive Media Design	498
Interior Design	323
Graphic Design	229
Visual Communications	37
Commercial Photography	28
Fashion Design	8
Other Design & Applied Arts	4

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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.