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The Top Design Colleges

BusinessWeek magazine asked a panel of experts in both business and design to identify top design schools. In other words, this is the Ivy League of design.

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• Delft U of Technology (The Netherlands)
• Design Academy Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
• Domus Academy (Italy)
• ENSCI Les Ateliers (France)
• ESDI Brasil (Brazil)
• George Brown C (Canada)
• Hochschule Pforzheim (Germany)
• Hong Kong Polytechnic (China)
• Hongik U C of Design (South Korea)
• Indian Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Centre (India)
• KaosPilot International (Denmark)
• Keio U (Japan)
• Koln International School of Design (Germany)
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (South Korea)
• London C of Communication (United Kingdom)
• Musashino Art U (Japan)
• National Cheng Kung U (Taiwan)
• National Institute of Design (India)
• North Carolina State U, C of Design
• Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) (Norway)
• Oxford, U of, Said Business School (United Kingdom)
• Polytechnic U, Milan (Italy)
• Royal C of Art (United Kingdom)
• Shih Chien U (Taiwan)
• Tongji U (China)
• Tsinghua U (China)
• UMEA Institute of Design (Sweden)
• Zollverein School of Management & Design (Germany)
• Art & Design, U of, Helsinki, (Finland)
• Bainbridge Graduate Institute (WA)
• Central Saint Martins, C of Art & Design (United Kingdom)
• Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
• Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA)
• Babson College (Babson Park, MA)
• California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
• Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH)
• College for Creative Studies (Detroit, MI)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Parsons The New School for Design (New York, NY)
• Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
• Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
• Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
• San Jose State University (San Jose, CA)
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)
• University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
• University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)
• Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)

Source: Second Annual BusinessWeek Survey, October 4, 2007. Copyright 2000-2008, The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved.