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Industrial Design Schools in Boston

Boston, MA (population: 610,407) has three industrial design schools within its city limits. Northeastern University, the highest ranked school in the city with an industrial design program, has a total student population of 27,537. It is the 56th highest ranked school in the USA and the 7th highest in the state of Massachusetts (#1 is Harvard University).

Industrial Design students from Boston schools who go on to become industrial designers, commercial designers, architecture designers, designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 65,460 people working as industrial engineering technicians alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $49,030. Also, Graphic designers make on average $47,820 per year and there are about 200,870 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy NECTA area alone, there are 3,330 employed graphic designers earning an average salary of $52,280. Industrial engineering technicians in this area earn $50,930/yr and there are 1,320 employed.

Boston lies in Suffolk county, which is one of the 12 counties in Massachusetts. Overall, the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy NECTA area has 1,685,900 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $28.04/hr average worker wage, and a $58,330 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.782 out of every 1000 jobs in Boston are held by industrial engineering technicians, and 1.978/1000 are held by graphic designers.

Of the 3 industrial design schools in Boston, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Northeastern University comes out as the most expensive ($32,703/yr) for industrial design students, with Massachusetts College of Art and Design as the lowest, reported at only $15,161/yr.

Industrial Design Programs in Boston

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Certificate, Bachelors

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

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