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Design Schools in Oakland

Oakland, CA (population: 412,612) has two design schools within its city limits. California College of the Arts, the highest ranked school in the city with a design program, has a total student population of 1,828. It is the 3265th highest ranked school in the USA and the 312th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about design programs in Oakland, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of design professors at California College of the Arts such as Zoee Astrachan, Amy Campos, Charlie Denison, Yim Lim, Steve Lyons, and Jeremy Mende.

Design students from Oakland schools who go on to become interior designers, architecture designers, designers, graphic designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 46,010 people working as interior designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $51,990. Also, Floral designers make on average $24,940 per year and there are about 51,470 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Oakland-Fremont-Hayward Metropolitan area alone, there are 130 employed floral designers earning an average salary of $31,520. Interior designers in this area earn $64,540/yr and there are 290 employed.

Oakland lies in Alameda county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the Oakland-Fremont-Hayward Metropolitan area has 990,570 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $26/hr average worker wage, and a $54,590 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Oakland are held by interior designers, and 0/1000 are held by floral designers.

Of the 2 design schools in Oakland, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, California College of the Arts comes out as the most expensive ($30,933/yr) for design students, with Laney College as the lowest, reported at only $7,253/yr.

Design Programs in Oakland

• Furniture Design and Manufacturing
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Design and Visual Communications, General
  

  Levels offered: Masters
• Fashion/Apparel Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Interior Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

• Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design
  
• Drafting and Design Technology/Technician, General
  

  Levels offered: Associates
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

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