Tennessee contains nine schools that offer furniture design programs. Watkins College of Art & Design, the highest-ranking furniture design school in TN, has a total student population of 412 and is the 259th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 9 furniture design schools in Tennessee, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of Tennessee-Nashville comes out as the most expensive ($30,998/yr), with Pellissippi State Technical Community College as the lowest recorded at only $5,825/yr.
Furniture Design students from Tennessee 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 Tennessee alone, there are 230 employed textile, apparel, and furnishings workers earning an average yearly salary of $30,210. Commercial and industrial designers in this state earn $52,940/yr and there are 490 employed.
Also, within the furniture design schools in Tennessee, the average student population is 2,002 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 17 to 1. Aside from furniture design, there are 4116 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 2,154 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,032, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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