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Furniture Design Schools in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has three furniture design schools within its city limits. Drexel University, the highest ranked school in the city with a furniture design program, has a total student population of 22,493. It is the 108th highest ranked school in the USA and the 8th highest in the state of Pennsylvania (#1 is University of Pennsylvania). To learn more about furniture design programs in Philadelphia, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of furniture design professors at Drexel University such as Victoria Barnes, Emil Dejohn, Neil Desnoyers, Francoise Dureese, Troy Finamore, and Stuart Fineman.

Furniture Design students from Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are ** employed textile, apparel, and furnishings workers earning an average salary of $52,040. Commercial and industrial designers in this area earn $60,120/yr and there are 380 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.210 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by commercial and industrial designers, and **/1000 are held by textile, apparel, and furnishings workers.

Of the 3 furniture design schools in Philadelphia, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr) for furniture design students, with Moore College of Art and Design as the lowest, reported at only $30,531/yr.

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