Top 25 Design Schools in the World 2012 by Business Insider
25. Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
About: The school of design is the only school in Hong Kong that offers higher level design education.
Location: Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Founded: 1937
Total Enrollment: 1,200
24. Georgia Institute of Technology
About: Georgia Tech has a great blend of engineering, manufacturing, business, and design in its curriculum. It’s also the alma mater of several prominent designers including Michael Arad, who designed the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City and “Trading Spaces” designer Vern Yip.
Location: Atlanta, GA
Founded: 1885
Total Enrollment: 20,000
23. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (fka University of Art and Design Helsinki)
About: The School of Arts, Design, and Architecture is broken into five departments: Media; Design; Art; Architecture; and Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. All departments put an emphasis on a humanist world view and aim to implement human-oriented environments.
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Founded: 1871
Total Enrollment: 2,779
22. Institute of Design (Chicago)
About: As one of our respondents notes, the Institute of Design is “one of the rare species that pushes the boundaries of where the design discipline can play and win.”
Location: Chicago, IL
Founded: 1937
Total Enrollment: 150
21. UCLA Design Media Arts
UCLA Design Media Arts
About: UCLA Design Media Arts’s partnership with Ogilvy & Mather enables students to learn directly from a brand expert for an entire semester. The school’s top employers include Wieden & Kennedy and Walt Disney.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Founded: 1988
Total Enrollment: 209
20. University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art and Design
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art and Design/Facebook
About: The School of Art and Design offers a wide variety of programs, ranging from studio arts to photography and graphic design.
Location: Chicago, IL
Founded: 1890
Total Enrollment: 15,219
19. University of California at Berkeley School of Information
University of California – Berkeley School of Information
About: The School of Information is Berkeley’s smallest and newest school. It offers a wide range of courses focused on bridging the gap between information and computer science, design, and social sciences.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Founded: 1994
Total Enrollment: 100
18. California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts
About: “The MBA in Design Strategy program at the California College of the Arts utilizes systems and design thinking—integrating the studies of design, business, ethnography, sustainability, and generative leadership into a holistic strategic framework for developing innovative and sustainable businesses, policies, services and products,” one our respondents said.
Locations: San Francisco and Oakland, CA
Founded: 1907
Total Enrollment: 1,917
17. Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
CIID
About: The Copenhagen Institute focuses solely on interaction design, which combines traditional design with socio-technological trends. This style of design is less about visual aesthetics, and more about the beauty in intangible experiences.
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Founded: 2008
Total Enrollment: 23
16. New York University Tisch School of the Arts
About: The Tisch school is widely regarded as one of the nation’s best institutions for studying performing and media arts. Some notable faculty members include interaction animation expert Jean-Marc Gauthier and Chrysler Design Award winner Daniel Rozin.
Location: New York, NY
Founded: 1965
Total Enrollment: 4,102
15. Cooper Union
Cooper Union
About: “Cooper Union trains its students to establish his or her own design ideals [by] offering them the training and discipline in thinking in order to achieve those ideals,” one of our respondents said.
Location: New York, NY
Founded: 1859
Total Enrollment: 1,000
14. Cranbrook Academy of Art
About: Cranbook provides a very unique experience to its students because they don’t actually have faculty. Instead, artists in residence teach students.
Location: Bloomfield, MI
Founded: 1932
Total Enrollment: 163
13. Savannah College of Art and Design
About: Many notable designers have graduated from Savannah, including Facebook’s director of design, Kate Aronowitz, and graphic novel creators Joshua and Jonathan Luna, also known as the Luna Brothers.
Location: Savannah, GA
Founded: 1978
Total Enrollment: 11,000
11. Rochester Institute of Technology College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
Location: Rochester, NY
Founded: 1829
Total Enrollment: 2,170
10. Art Center College of Design
About: “At Art Center College of Design, I was instilled with a work ethic and appreciation and understanding of the history of design that I consider to be invaluable, which is lucky considering the cost of tuition,” one of our respondents said. “When deciding to pivot in my life after having already acquired a degree in history from UCLA and see if design was for me, I only applied to what I considered to be the best school to find out if it was right decision. As it turns out it was, and I consider it to be the best decision I’ve ever made.”
Location: Pasadena, CA
Founded: 1930
Total Enrollment: 1,842
9. Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute
About: The Human Computer Interaction Institute was listed as one of the top 10 most innovative schools in IT by Computerworld in 2008. One of our respondents said that the school “has undoubtedly prepared [him/her] for [his/her] first [user experience] job in an excellent way.”
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Founded: 1967
Total Enrollment: 27
8. D School: Institute of Design at Stanford University
Rating: 72.8% of respondents said the program is valuable.
About: The D School counts practicing designers like Klout’s director of product design, David Baggeroer, as professors.
Location: Stanford, CA
Founded: 1891
Total Enrollment: 15,723
Business Insider’s rating is based on a simple and pragmatic survey that asked how valuable each design school’s program really is.
7. Royal College of Art
About: The RCA is the world’s oldest art and design university. The school touts notable alumni like screen writer Alan Rickman and graphic designer Angus Hyland.
Location: London, UK
Founded: 1837
Enrollment: 517
Business Insider’s rating is based on a simple and pragmatic survey that asked how valuable each design school’s program really is.
6. Pratt Institute
About: “The supremely effective education on offer at Pratt is about a re-imagining of everything we touch and shape—in a functional yet boundary-demolishing way shared perhaps only by RISD,” one of our respondents said. “Pratt is not just a school; it alters not just what it’s students can do in the world.”
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Founded: 1887
Total Enrollment: ~4,400
5. Parsons The New School for Design
About: “The best graduate level talent for product concept, visualization, design, and management is coming from Parsons in New York and Stanford’s D School,” one of our respondents said. “We feel that Parsons offers the best concepts taught. Although schools like NYU, Melon, and MIT have good programmers, sometimes it doesn’t translate in design.”
Location: New York, NY
Founded: 1896
Total Enrollment: 5,000
4. Carnegie Mellon University School of Design
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Founded: 1905
Total Enrollment: 220
3. University of Cincinnati (College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning)
About: “University of Cincinnati offers an education in design that pales other schools when all aspects are considered,” one of our respondents said. “As a state school it offers curriculum from a multitude of colleges, the diversity of a major university campus, and all of the amenities and extra curricular activities that one would expect from a top- tier Division One school.”
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Founded: 1819
Total Enrollment: 2,438
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Location: Cambridge, MA
Founded: 1985
Total Enrollment: 141
1. Rhode Island School of Design
About: RISD is famous for having two out of three Airbnb cofounders as graduates.
Location: Providence, RI
Founded: 1877
Total Enrollment: 2,406
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