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Furniture Design Schools near Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach, VA (population: 439,564) has three furniture design schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Virginia Commonwealth University, the highest ranked school in this group with a furniture design program, has a total student population of 32,172. It is the 222nd highest ranked school in the USA and the 5th highest in the state of Virginia (#1 is Washington and Lee University). To learn more about furniture design programs in Virginia Beach, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of furniture design professors at Virginia Commonwealth University such as Mrs. Borel, Kristin Caskey, Jennifer Hamilton, Susan Iverson, Linda Lee, and Noelle McKown.

Furniture Design students from Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area alone, there are 200 employed textile, apparel, and furnishings workers earning an average salary of $32,610. Commercial and industrial designers in this area earn $47,390/yr and there are 120 employed.

Virginia Beach lies in Virginia Beach county, which is one of the 61 counties in Virginia. Overall, the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News-NC area has 735,390 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $19.28/hr average worker wage, and a $40,100 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.170 out of every 1000 jobs in Virginia Beach are held by commercial and industrial designers, and 0.277/1000 are held by textile, apparel, and furnishings workers.

Of the 3 furniture design schools with a 100-mile radius of Virginia Beach, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Virginia Commonwealth University comes out as the most expensive ($15,907/yr) for furniture design students, with Halifax Community College as the lowest, reported at only $3,190/yr.

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