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Design Schools in Boston

Boston, MA (population: 610,407) has fifteen design schools within its city limits. Boston University, the highest ranked school in the city with a design program, has a total student population of 31,960. It is the 32nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Massachusetts (#1 is Harvard University). To learn more about design programs in Boston, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of design professors at Boston University such as Scout Stevenson.

Design students from Boston 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 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy NECTA area alone, there are 930 employed floral designers earning an average salary of $30,560. Interior designers in this area earn $58,920/yr and there are 920 employed.

Boston lies in Suffolk county, which is one of the 12 counties in Massachusetts. Overall, the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy NECTA area has 1,685,900 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $28.04/hr average worker wage, and a $58,330 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.545 out of every 1000 jobs in Boston are held by interior designers, and 0.549/1000 are held by floral designers.

Of the 15 design schools in Boston, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, North Bennet Street School comes out as the most expensive ($61,218/yr) for design students, with Bunker Hill Community College as the lowest, reported at only $7,745/yr.

Design Programs in Boston

Boston University

• Educational/Instructional Media Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Masters
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

Northeastern University

• Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate
• Pharmaceutics and Drug Design (MS, PhD)
  

  Levels offered: Masters, PhD
• Design and Visual Communications, General
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Associates, Bachelors

Emerson College

• Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

• Environmental Design/Architecture
  

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

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Design and Visual Communications, General
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Bachelors, Masters
• Fashion/Apparel Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Bachelors

Simmons College

• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Emmanuel College

• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Wentworth Institute of Technology

• Drafting/Design Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Other
  

  Levels offered: Associates, Bachelors
• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Interior Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Suffolk University

• Design and Applied Arts, Other
  
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters
• Interior Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

North Bennet Street School

• Furniture Design and Manufacturing
  

  Levels offered: Certificate

Fisher College

• Fashion/Apparel Design
  

  Levels offered: Associates

School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston

• Graphic Design
  

University of Massachusetts-Boston

• Educational/Instructional Media Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Masters

Boston Architectural College

• Environmental Design/Architecture
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

Bunker Hill Community College

• Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design
  

  Levels offered: Associates
• Design and Visual Communications, General
  

  Levels offered: Associates

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See Also

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• Online Design Schools
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