The top rated undergraduate programs in industrial design by the 2006 DesignIntelligence rankings:
Undergraduate Industrial Design Programs
- Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, Calif.)
- University of Cincinnati - http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=3443
- Pratt Institute (New York City)
- College for Creative Studies (Detroit) (tied with Rhode Island School of Design)
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cleveland Institute of Art
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Syracuse University
- California College of the Arts
As a graduate student in Human Factors at the University of Cincinnati I took classes in the industrial design program - although at the time it was not a large part of the ID curicullum. I wonder how many of these top schools give human factors and design research significant emphasis in their required coursework?