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Industrial Design Schools in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA (population: 1,445,993) has four industrial design schools within its city limits. Drexel University, the highest ranked school in the city with an industrial design program, has a total student population of 22,493. It is the 108th highest ranked school in the USA and the 8th highest in the state of Pennsylvania (#1 is University of Pennsylvania). To learn more about industrial design programs in Philadelphia, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of industrial design professors at Drexel University such as Victoria Barnes, Emil Dejohn, Neil Desnoyers, Francoise Dureese, Troy Finamore, and Stuart Fineman.

Industrial Design students from Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Metropolitan area alone, there are 3,240 employed graphic designers earning an average salary of $48,710. Industrial engineering technicians in this area earn $53,270/yr and there are 1,330 employed.

Philadelphia lies in Philadelphia county, which is one of the 32 counties in Pennsylvania. Overall, the Philadelphia Metropolitan area has 1,832,880 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.6% unemployment rate, $23.24/hr average worker wage, and a $48,340 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.725 out of every 1000 jobs in Philadelphia are held by industrial engineering technicians, and 1.767/1000 are held by graphic designers.

Of the 4 industrial design schools in Philadelphia, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Drexel University comes out as the most expensive ($31,832/yr) for industrial design students, with Philadelphia University as the lowest, reported at only $27,028/yr.

Industrial Design Programs in Philadelphia

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors, Masters

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

• Industrial Design
  

  Levels offered: Bachelors

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