2025 Best Interior Design Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Ranked #116 in popularity, interior design is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for interior design students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 64 bachelor's degrees in interior design during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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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 interior design students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other interior design students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 interior design related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Interior Design Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Interior 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 Interior Design in Illinois

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

Top Illinois Schools for a Bachelor's in Interior Design

1

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL

22 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Columbia College Chicago if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in interior design. Located in the city of Chicago, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in interior design from Columbia College Chicago

2

Illinois State University
Normal, IL

31 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Illinois State University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in interior design. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in interior design from Illinois State University

Best Interior Design Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	128
Ohio	612	121
Indiana	535	64
Wisconsin	435	91

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Interior Design Related Rankings by Major

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

Most Popular Majors Related to Interior Design

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Graphic Design	328
Game & Interactive Media Design	118
Fashion Design	75
Illustration	64
Visual Communications	47
Industrial Design	22
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.