Furniture Design & Manufacturing at Rhode Island School of Design

If you are interested in studying furniture design & manufacturing, you may want to check out the program at Rhode Island School of Design. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

RISD is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a total student population of 2,227.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Furniture Design & Manufacturing section at the bottom of this page.

RISD Furniture Design & Manufacturing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Furniture Design and Manufacturing
• Master’s Degree in Furniture Design and Manufacturing

RISD Furniture Design & Manufacturing Rankings

The furniture design and manufacturing major at RISD is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Furniture Design & Manufacturing. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Furniture Design and Manufacturing Student Demographics at RISD

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the furniture design and manufacturing majors at Rhode Island School of Design.

RISD Furniture Design & Manufacturing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of furniture design and manufacturing bachelor's degrees went to men and 62% went to women. The typical furniture design and manufacturing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% women. So female students are more repesented at RISD since its program graduates 17% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% more racial-ethnic minorities in its furniture design and manufacturing bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a bachelor's in furniture design and manufacturing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	12
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

RISD Furniture Design & Manufacturing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of furniture design and manufacturing master's degrees went to men and 50% went to women.

Of the students who received a furniture design and manufacturing master's degree from RISD, 88% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a master's in furniture design and manufacturing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	7
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That Furniture Design and Manufacturing Grads May Go Into

A degree in furniture design and manufacturing can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for RI, the home state for Rhode Island School of Design.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Furniture Finishers	70	$41,200

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By DanielPenfield under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.