If you pursue a degree in interior design, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #150 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for interior design students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 70 degrees in interior design annually.
Your choice of interior design school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Interior Design School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Interior Design Schools in Missouri list, to help you choose the best school for you.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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The schools below may not offer all types of interior design degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Maryville University of Saint Louis is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in interior design. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, Maryville U is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #319 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Maryville U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 21 interior design students who graduated with this degree at Maryville U in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Central Missouri is a great option for students pursuing a degree in interior design. UCM is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Warrensburg. This university ranks 21st out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 7 interior design students who graduated with this degree at UCM in the most recent data year.
Saint Louis Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in interior design. Saint Louis Community College is a fairly large public college located in the large suburb of Bridgeton. This college ranks 22nd out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 22 interior design students who graduated with this degree at Saint Louis Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).