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Design Schools in San Jose

San Jose, CA (population: 977,893) has four design schools within its city limits. San Jose State University, the highest ranked school in the city with a design program, has a total student population of 31,280. It is the 1434th highest ranked school in the USA and the 121st highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about design programs in San Jose, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of design professors at San Jose State University such as Andrea English, Pat Enright, Dan Hua, Lorri Kershner, Brian Kimura, and Shunichi Kimura.

Design students from San Jose 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 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area alone, there are 140 employed floral designers earning an average salary of $29,090. Interior designers in this area earn $73,420/yr and there are 240 employed.

San Jose lies in Santa Clara county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area has 888,960 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $32/hr average worker wage, and a $66,780 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in San Jose are held by interior designers, and 0/1000 are held by floral designers.

Of the 4 design schools in San Jose, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Western Career College-San Jose comes out as the most expensive ($25,443/yr) for design students, with Evergreen Valley College as the lowest, reported at only $9,070/yr.

Design Programs in San Jose

• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Interior Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

• Drafting and Design Technology/Technician, General
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

• Drafting and Design Technology/Technician, General
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

• Prepress/Desktop Publishing and Digital Imaging Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates
• Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

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