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| OSU Department of Design Receives Top Ranking The Ohio State University Department of Design’s graduate program has been ranked seventh in the country for industrial design and second in the Midwest region by Design Intelligence (DI), a monthly architecture and design journal. OSU’s graduate program in design also was ranked fifth nationally by DI for collaborative learning in the category of skill assessment. This is the first year DI has ranked graduate programs, according to Wayne Carlson, department chair. Other schools ranked in the top 10 were Art Center College of Design, Pratt Institute, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Illinois Institute of Technology, Stanford, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Illinois, Syracuse University and Arizona State. In the same survey, OSU Professor Reinhart Butter was chosen as one of 2006’s most admired design educators. The rankings are part of DI’s 2006 “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools” issue, which it has published annually since 2000. The journal ranked 131 design programs from throughout the US based on surveys completed by professionals in architecture and design firms. They are the only school rankings based exclusively on companies’ perceptions of how well schools prepare their graduates for professional practice. OSU’s Department of Design currently has 154 undergraduate students and 43 graduate students, and offers study in industrial design, interior design and visual communications design. For more, see the department’s website at design.osu.edu
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