New York contains eleven schools that offer industrial design programs. Columbia University in the City of New York, the highest-ranking industrial design school in NY, has a total student population of 24,230 and is the 4th highest ranked school in America.
Of the 11 industrial design schools in New York, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The New School comes out as the most expensive ($39,004/yr), with Fashion Institute of Technology as the lowest recorded at only $9,400/yr.
Industrial Design students from New York 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 New York alone, there are 19,980 employed graphic designers earning an average yearly salary of $56,680. Industrial engineering technicians in this state earn $47,420/yr and there are 2,920 employed.
Also, within the industrial design schools in New York, the average student population is 2,856 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 16 to 1. Aside from industrial design, there are 10195 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,318 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,933, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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