Interior Design at Rochester Institute of Technology

If you plan to study interior design, take a look at what Rochester Institute of Technology has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

RIT is located in Rochester, New York and approximately 16,158 students attend the school each year.

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

RIT Interior Design Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design
• Master’s Degree in Interior Design

RIT Interior Design Rankings

The interior design major at RIT is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Interior Design. 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.

Interior Design Student Demographics at RIT

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the interior design majors at Rochester Institute of Technology.

RIT Interior Design Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 24% of interior design bachelor's degrees went to men and 76% went to women. The typical interior design bachelor's degree program is made up of only 9% men. So male students are more repesented at RIT since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in interior design at RIT are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in interior design.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

RIT Interior Design Master’s Program

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

In the interior design master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 100% of degree recipients. That is 69% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a master's in interior design.

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

Related Majors

• Commercial & Advertising Art
• Illustration
• Graphic Design
• Industrial Design

Careers That Interior Design Grads May Go Into

A degree in interior design can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Rochester Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Interior Designers	4,780	$66,790
Architecture Professors	970	$135,190

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 Matthew D. Wilson (LtPowers) under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.