@singermom4 I’m a parent, not a student, but I can offer a bit of perspective on this. I’m an industrial designer myself and my daughter just graduated from ISU with a degree in interior design so I’ve had a lot of exposure over the last four years to the College of Design at ISU, as well as the work coming out of the industrial design program. I would say that the quality of work I saw there was among some of the best I’ve seen. They seem to teach a very solid design methodology. The ID program is relatively new there, but I think the person they hired to head it up came from SCAD. The College of Design as a whole is, in my opinion, really overlooked across the country. It’s one of only a handful of colleges in the country with that many different design curricula under one roof, and the cross-discipline exposure is a great thing in the design world. Fantastic study abroad program, too, and ISU as an institution is really committed to making sure kids are employed upon graduation.
Long story short, I think it would more come down to whether the student thinks ISU is the right fit for them. There’s nothing I’ve seen in the ID program that should hold anyone back from selecting ISU.