Nation's design employers: UC is tops

The University of Cincinnati has the top undergrad interior design program in the nation, say the country's leading design employers.


UC's program was ranked 1st in the nation in the DesignIntelligence11th annual America's Best Architecture and Design Schools study, on behalf of the Design Futures Council. The Council is a network of design, product, and construction leaders across the U.S. It's the 10th time in a row, the UC interior design program has taken top honors in the rankings.


Other UC design programs ranked high, as well. The university's undergraduate industrial program ranked 4th in the nation, the graduate industrial design program ranked 5th and the graduate architecture program ranked 6th. The programs are part of the university's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, or DAAP.


The ranking came from surveys of employers at 381 small, medium and large design firms.


Two UC professors also stood out in the poll, ranked among the nation's Top 25 design faculty. Michaele Pride, associate professor in UC's School of Architecture and Interior Design and Robert Probst dean, UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.


This is just the latest accolades UC's design programs have earned. Earlier this fall, Businessweek named the University of Cincinnati’s Master's in Design as one of the best programs across the globe.


"We are pleased to receive consistently high rankings by Design Intelligence. That's because DAAP has an extensive and supportive network of industry and institutional partners. "We strive to produce innovators as well as design thinkers and leaders. It is especially rewarding that two of us here at the University of Cincinnati, Professor Michaele Pride and myself, were named amongst the top 25 design educators in the country this year," Probst said.


Writer: Feoshia Henderson
Source: UC Assistant Director of Public Relations M.B. Reilly and Robert Probst dean, UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
 Photography by Scott Beseler

Michaele Pride

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