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Furniture Design Schools in Charlotte

Charlotte, NC (population: 723,514) has three furniture design schools within its city limits. Queens University of Charlotte, the highest ranked school in the city with a furniture design program, has a total student population of 2,568. It is the 407th highest ranked school in the USA and the 16th highest in the state of North Carolina (#1 is Duke University).

Furniture Design students from Charlotte schools who go on to become furniture makers, craftsmen, furniture designers, furniture upholsterers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 29,170 people working as commercial and industrial designers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $61,400. Also, Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers make on average $29,010 per year and there are about 14,220 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord-SC area alone, there are 120 employed textile, apparel, and furnishings workers earning an average salary of $31,130. Commercial and industrial designers in this area earn $64,640/yr and there are 90 employed.

Charlotte lies in Mecklenburg county, which is one of the 64 counties in North Carolina. Overall, the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord-SC area has 837,820 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $21.10/hr average worker wage, and a $43,890 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.105 out of every 1000 jobs in Charlotte are held by commercial and industrial designers, and 0.144/1000 are held by textile, apparel, and furnishings workers.

Of the 3 furniture design schools in Charlotte, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Charlotte comes out as the most expensive ($31,116/yr) for furniture design students, with Central Piedmont Community College as the lowest, reported at only $9,798/yr.

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