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Design Schools in Detroit

Detroit, MI (population: 901,160) has three design schools within its city limits. College for Creative Studies, the highest ranked school in the city with a design program, has a total student population of 1,405. It is the 1959th highest ranked school in the USA and the 39th highest in the state of Michigan (#1 is Kalamazoo College). To learn more about design programs in Detroit, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of design professors at College for Creative Studies such as Nelson Greer, Doug Kisor, Ken Krayer, Susan Laporte, Kathleen McShane-Bolton, and Sandra Sabbagh.

Design students from Detroit 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 Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn Metropolitan area alone, there are 150 employed floral designers earning an average salary of $25,240. Interior designers in this area earn $51,980/yr and there are 60 employed.

Detroit lies in Wayne county, which is one of the 62 counties in Michigan. Overall, the Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn Metropolitan area has 705,820 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.4% unemployment rate, $22.55/hr average worker wage, and a $46,900 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.088 out of every 1000 jobs in Detroit are held by interior designers, and 0.218/1000 are held by floral designers.

Of the 3 design schools in Detroit, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, College for Creative Studies comes out as the most expensive ($28,628/yr) for design students, with Wayne County Community College District as the lowest, reported at only $3,274/yr.

Design Programs in Detroit

• Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Graphic Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors
• Interior Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

• Educational/Instructional Media Design
  

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

  Levels offered: Masters, PhD

• CAD/CADD Drafting and/or Design Technology/Technician
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Associates

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