Detroit, MI (population: 901,160) has four jewelry schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Cleveland Institute of Art, the highest ranked school in this group with a jewelry program, has a total student population of 507. It is the 3064th highest ranked school in the USA and the 172nd highest in the state of Ohio (#1 is Ohio State University-Main Campus).
Jewelry students from Detroit schools who go on to become jewelers, jewelry designers, jewelry makers, jewelry repairers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 23,410 people working as jewelers and precious stone and metal workers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $36,620. Also, Craft artists make on average $33,070 per year and there are about 5,380 of them employed in the US today.
Detroit lies in Wayne county, which is one of the 62 counties in Michigan. Overall, the Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn Metropolitan area has 705,820 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.4% unemployment rate, $22.55/hr average worker wage, and a $46,900 average annual salary.
Of the 4 jewelry schools with a 100-mile radius of Detroit, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Cleveland Institute of Art comes out as the most expensive ($20,775/yr) for jewelry students, with Delta College as the lowest, reported at only $7,083/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Detroit |
| Ferndale | MI | - | 1 | 11.6923 | 4 | 5.8 miles |
| Madison Heights | MI | - | 2 | 27.3656 | 17 | 7.3 miles |
| Dearborn | MI | 82,453 | 3 | 34.0016 | 184 | 7.4 miles |
| Warren | MI | 133,470 | 6 | 23.1927 | 131 | 8.4 miles |
| Royal Oak | MI | 56,742 | 1 | 28.1635 | 4 | 9.3 miles |
| Dearborn Heights | MI | 49,619 | 0 | - | 0 | 9.4 miles |
| Southfield | MI | 75,151 | 8 | 20.9451 | 96 | 10.7 miles |
| Saint Clair Shores | MI | 59,971 | 1 | 11.5792 | 3 | 13.1 miles |
| Taylor | MI | 58,134 | 1 | 26.0382 | 3 | 13.5 miles |
| Sterling Heights | MI | 127,075 | 1 | 28.9156 | 3 | 14.3 miles |
| Westland | MI | 75,634 | 1 | 16.8264 | 4 | 14.9 miles |
| Farmington Hills | MI | 78,114 | 1 | 0.013626 | 0 | 16.2 miles |
| Bloomfield Township | MI | 41,179 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.3 miles |
| Clinton Township | MI | - | 2 | 7.68254 | 63 | 17.0 miles |
| West Bloomfield Township | MI | 71,474 | 0 | - | 0 | 19.4 miles |
| Canton | MI | 94,521 | 12 | 27.6578 | 316 | 20.0 miles |
| Rochester Hills | MI | 68,883 | 1 | 23.9536 | 51 | 20.3 miles |
| Novi | MI | 54,922 | 1 | 10.8219 | 16 | 21.1 miles |
| Auburn Hills | MI | - | 2 | 5.8467 | 61 | 22.3 miles |
| Waterford | MI | 75,011 | 1 | 16.3502 | 6 | 24.4 miles |
| Ann Arbor | MI | 113,880 | 5 | 27.5859 | 183 | 33.0 miles |
| Port Huron | MI | - | 5 | 17.4204 | 129 | 53.4 miles |
| Flint | MI | 109,751 | 7 | 25.2834 | 318 | 53.5 miles |
| Sylvania | OH | - | 2 | 12.7922 | 52 | 55.5 miles |
| Toledo | OH | 288,207 | 7 | 20.3804 | 301 | 55.6 miles |
| Maumee | OH | - | 2 | 16.7962 | 34 | 63.3 miles |
| East Lansing | MI | 45,575 | 2 | 19.4594 | 4 | 74.6 miles |
| Spring Arbor | MI | - | 1 | 60.8655 | 91 | 75.3 miles |
| Lansing | MI | 112,579 | 5 | 18.9833 | 209 | 77.3 miles |
| Milan | OH | - | 1 | 27.8478 | 15 | 79.1 miles |