List of ID Schools

List of schools offering ID courses which are NASAD Accredited. These schools have been evaluated and accredited using the standards and guidelines adopted by The National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD), as of May 2008.

Schools listed as NASAD Accredited have been evaluated and accredited using the standards and guidelines adopted by The National Association of Schools of Art & Design (NASAD), as of May 2009. For more information about NASAD and accreditation visit http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/index.jsp?page=FAQ%203.

All the schools below have IDSA Student Chapters. For a list of student chapters with an active online presence, see our Student Chapters page.

Alabama

Auburn University (NASAD accredited)
Department of Industrial Design
Auburn, AL 36849
334.844-2364
Degrees offered: BID, MID
Department Head: Clark Lundell, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Shea Tillman, IDSA

Arizona

Arizona State University (NASAD accredited)
College of Design
Tempe, AZ 85287 
480.965.8696
Degrees offered: BS, BA, MS, PhD Department Head: Lauren McDermott, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Prasad Boradkar, IDSA
Student Chapter website: http://www.asu.edu/clubs/idsa

California

Academy of Art University (NASAD accredited)
Product & Industrial Design Department
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-618-3727 or 800-544-2787
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Department Head: Tom Matano, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Tom Matano, IDSA

Art Center College of Design (NASAD accredited)
Pasadena, CA 91103
626.396.2200
Degrees offered: BS Product Design, MS Industrial Design
Department Head:Karen Hofmann, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor:Karen Hofmann, IDSA

California College of the Arts (NASAD accredited)
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.703.9500
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Department Head: Yves Béhar, IDSA

California State University - Long Beach (NASAD accredited)
Department of Design
Long Beach, CA 90840
562.985.5089                                                                                                                                                            Degrees offered: BS, MA
Department Head: Mike Kammermeyer
Student Chapter Advisor: David Teubner, IDSA

Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles, CA 90045
800.527.6847
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head:

San Francisco State University (NASAD accredited)
Department of Design
San Francisco, CA 94132
415.338.2229
Degrees offered: BA, MA, MFA
Department Head: Ricardo Gomes, IDSA

San Jose State University (NASAD accredited)
School of Art & Design
San Jose, CA 95192
408.924.4371
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head: John McClusky, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Leslie Speer, IDSA

Colorado

Art Institute of Colorado
Denver, CO 80203
303.764.9755
Degrees offered: BA
Department Head: John Ciciora, IDSA

Metropolitan State College of Denver (NASAD accredited)
Denver, CO 80217
303.556.3219
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head: John Schmidt
Student Chapter Advisor: Ted Shin, IDSA

Connecticut

Shintaro Akatsu School of Design  (NASAD Accredited)
at University of Bridgeport
Department of Industrial Design
Bridgeport, CT 06604
203.576.4222
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head: Richard Wilfred Yelle, IDSA

Florida

Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Department Head: Brian Wood, IDSA
Degrees offered: BSID

 

Georgia

Georgia Institute of Technology (NASAD accredited)
School of Architecture/ ID Program
Atlanta, GA 30332
404.894.4874
Degrees offered: BS, MID
Department Head: Abir Mullick, IDSA, Professor and Director Industrial Design
Student Chapter Advisor: Kevin Shankwiler, IDSA
Student Chapter website: http://idsa.gatech.edu/

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah GA 31402
912.525.6431
Degrees Offered: BFA, MA, MFA
Minors: Interaction Design, Marine Design
Department Head: Tom Gattis

Illinois

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL 60605
312.344.7380
Degrees Offered: BFA product design
Department Head (coordinator): Tao Huang, IDSA
Art and Design Chairperson: Jay Wolke

Southern Illinois University (NASAD accredited)
School of Art and Design
Carbondale, IL 62901
618.453.4313
Degrees offered: BA, BFA
Department Head: Steve Belletire, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Steve Belletire, IDSA

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 
Chicago, IL 60603
312.629.6650
Degree Offered: BFA, MFA, Masters of Design
Department Head: Helen Maria Nugent

University of Illinois-Chicago (NASAD accredited)
Chicago, IL 60607
312.996.3337
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Department Head: Stephanie Munson Tharp
Student Chapter Advisor: Stephen Melamed, IDSA

University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (NASAD accredited)
School of Art/Design
Champaign, IL 61820
217.265.0873
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Department Head: William Bullock, FIDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Kevin Reeder, IDSA

Indiana

Purdue University (NASAD accredited)
Division of Art & Design
West Lafayette, IN 47907
765.494.2295
Degrees offered: BA, MFA, IDE
Department Head: Steve Visser, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Steve Visser, IDSA

University of Notre Dame (NASAD accredited)
Department of Art, Art History & Design
Notre Dame, IN 46556
219.631.7602
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MFA
Department Head: Paul Down, IDSA

Kansas

University of Kansas (NASAD accredited)
Art & Design Building
Lawrence, KS 66045
785.864.4401
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA, MA
Department Chair:Gregory Thomas, IDSA

 

Kansas State University (NASAD accredited)
Department of Interior Architecture & Product Design
Manhattan, KS 66506
785.532.5992
Degrees offered: BA, BS, BFA, MFA
Department Chair:Kathy Ankerson

 

Louisiana

University of Louisana-Lafayette (NASAD accredited)
Industrial Design Program
Lafayette, LA 70504
337.482.6225
Degrees offered: BID
Department Head: Robert McKinney

 

Massachusetts

Massachusetts College of Art (NASAD accredited)
Boston, MA 02115
617.879.7653
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head: James Read, IDSA

Wentworth Institute of Technology (NASAD accredited)
Department of Design & Facilities
Boston, MA 02115
617.989.4050
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head: Rachel Pike

Michigan

College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI 48202
313.664.7938
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Department Head: Vincenzo Iavicoli, IDSA

Cranbrook Academy of Art
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
248.645.3300
Degrees offered: MFA 3D Design
Department Head: Scott Klinker, IDSA

Kendall College of Art & Design (NASAD accredited)
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
800.676.2787
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head: Thomas Edwards, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Thomas Edwards, IDSA

Northern Michigan University
Marquette, MI 29855
800-682-9797
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head:
Student Chapter Advisor: Peter J. Pless, IDSA

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.764.0397
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Department Head: Shaun Jackson, IDSA

New Jersey

Kean University (NASAD accredited)
Industrial Design Program
Union, NJ 07083
908.737.4430
Degrees offered: BID
Department Head: Dr. Timothy Riegle

Montclair State University (NASAD accredited)
School of the Arts
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
973.655.5104
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MA, MFA
Department Head: Daryl Moore
Student Chapter Advisor: Denis Feigler, IDSA

New York

Parsons School of Design  (NASAD accredited)
New York, NY 10011
212.229.5885
Degrees offered: BFA Product Design
Department Head: Tony Whitfield

Pratt Institute (NASAD accredited)
Industrial Design Department
Brooklyn, NY 11205
718.636.3631
Degrees offered: BID, MID
Department Head:
Student Chapter Advisor: Karen Stone, IDSA

Rochester Institute of Technology (NASAD accredited)
CIAS/School of Design, Department of Industrial Design
Rochester, NY 14623-6603
716.475.2668
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Department Head: Stan Rickel

School of Visual Arts
209 E. 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010-3994
(212) 592-2100

Syracuse University (NASAD accredited)
Syracuse, NY 13244
315.443.9691
Degrees offered: BID, MID
Department Head: Donald Carr, IDSA

North Carolina

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3110
Degrees Offered: BS
Department Head:

NC State College of Design (NASAD accredited)
Campus Box 7701
Raleigh, NC 27695-7701
919.515.8302
Degrees offered: BID, MID 
Department Head: Santiago Piedrafita
Student Chapter Advisor: Santiago Piedrafita

Ohio

Cleveland Institute of Art (NASAD accredited)
Cleveland, OH 44106
216.421.7929
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head: Dan Cuffaro

Columbus College of Art & Design (NASAD accredited)
Columbus, OH 43215
614.224.9101
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head: Tom Kier

The Ohio State University (NASAD accredited)
Columbus, OH 43210
614.292.6746
Degrees offered: BS, MA, MFA
Department Head: Wayne Carlson
Student Chapter Advisor:

University of Cincinnati (NASAD accredited)
Department of I.D.
Cincinnati, OH 45221
513.556.6828
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head:SooShin Choi, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Peter Chamberlain, IDSA

Oregon

Art Institute of Portland
Portland, OR
Degrees offered:
Department Head:
Student Chapter Advisor: Jim Arnold, IDSA
Student Chapter website: http://idsaip.blogspot.com/

Pennsylvania

Art Institute of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Degrees offered:
Department Head:
Student Chapter Advisor: Wendy Byar, IDSA
Student Chapter website: www.aiidsa.blogspot.com

Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Degrees offered:
Department Head:
Student Chapter website: http://ti155.aisites.com/

Carnegie-Mellon University (NASAD accredited)
School of Design
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412.268.2828
Degrees offered: BFA, MPD
Department Head - Terry Irwin
Student Chapter Advisor: Wayne Chung, IDSA

Drexel University
School of Design
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.895.1675
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head - Roberta Gruber

Philadelphia University (NASAD accredited)
Industrial Design
Philadelphia, PA 19144
215.951.2109
Degrees offered: BS, MS
Director: Götz Unger, IDSA

The University of the Arts (NASAD accredited)
ID Department
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.717.6250
Degrees offered: BS, MID
Department Head: Anthony Guido

Rhode Island

Rhode Island School of Design (NASAD accredited)
Providence, RI 02903
401.454.6160
Degrees offered: BFA, BID, MID
Department Head: Leslie Fontana, IDSA

 

Texas

University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204
713.743.2400
Degrees offered: BS in Industrial Design
Department Head: EunSook Kwon, IDSA

Utah

Brigham Yound University
School of Technology 
Provo, UT 84602
801.422.6300
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head: Paul Skaggs, IDSA
Student Chapter Advisor: Paul Skaggs, IDSA

Virginia

Virginia Polytechnic Institute (NASAD accredited)
Industrial Design Program
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540.231.6386
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head: Ron Kemnitzer, FIDSA

Washington

University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-0970
Degrees offered: BA, MFA
Department Head: Sang-yuen Ahn, IDSA 
Student Chapter Advisor: Sang-Gyeun Ahn, IDSA

Western Washington University (NASAD accredited)
Department of Engineering Technology
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.650.3425
Degrees offered: BS
Department Head: Arunas Oslapas, IDSA
Student Chapter website: http://www.wwuidsa.blogspot.com/

Wisconsin

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) (NASAD accredited)
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414.847.3200
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head: Pascal Malassigné, FIDSA

University of Wisconsin-Stout (NASAD accredited)
Department of Art & Design
Menomonie, WI 54751
715.232.1097
Degrees offered: BFA
Department Head: Ben Pratt
Student Chapter Advisor: Jennifer Astwood, IDSA

CANADA

Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6
613.520.5672
Degrees offered: BID  

                                                                                                                                     
Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3R9
604.844.3800
Degrees offered: BDes, MAA
Program Head: Louise St. Pierre, IDSA

 

United Kingdom

University of Lincoln
School of Art & Design 
Lincoln LN6 7TS
44 1522 837437
Degrees offered: BA, MA
Department Head:  Dr. Alex Shepley
Student Chapter Advisor: David Bramston, I/IDSA

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