San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has two furniture design schools within its city limits. University of the Incarnate Word, the highest ranked school in the city with a furniture design program, has a total student population of 6,756. It is the 535th highest ranked school in the USA and the 23rd highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about furniture design programs in San Antonio, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of furniture design professors at University of the Incarnate Word such as Melinda Adams, Denny Fagan, and Annemarie Walsh.
Furniture Design students from San Antonio 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 San Antonio area alone, there are 60 employed textile, apparel, and furnishings workers earning an average salary of $24,840. Commercial and industrial designers in this area earn $43,320/yr and there are 40 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.052 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by commercial and industrial designers, and 0.068/1000 are held by textile, apparel, and furnishings workers.
Of the 2 furniture design schools in San Antonio, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of the Incarnate Word comes out as the most expensive ($17,358/yr) for furniture design students, with St Philips College as the lowest, reported at only $4,077/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |