Interior Design is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #150 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for interior design students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 86 degrees in interior design annually.
Your choice of interior design school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for interior 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 interior 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 Interior Design Schools in Alabama.
More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.
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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 interior design degrees they offer, see the list below.
Auburn University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in interior design. Auburn is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Auburn. A Best Colleges rank of #169 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Auburn is a great university overall.
There were roughly 47 interior design students who graduated with this degree at Auburn in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Samford University if you want to pursue a degree in interior design. Located in the large suburb of Birmingham, Samford is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 5th out of 42 colleges for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were approximately 12 interior design students who graduated with this degree at Samford in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat The University of Alabama if you want to pursue a degree in interior design. UA is a very large public university located in the city of Tuscaloosa. This university ranks 3rd out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were approximately 27 interior design students who graduated with this degree at UA 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).
Your choice of interior design school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for interior design schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
