New England Colleges with Undergraduate Design Programs, 66 Institutions

Schlatter Team Data identifies 66 NECHE-accredited colleges and universities offering undergraduate design programs across the six New England states. The dataset was constructed through manual web searches and documents institutional type, degree type, program name, state, and program characteristics for each institution. It was authored by Tania Schlatter and is hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Compare institutional types (e.g., public vs. private) offering design programs based on the documented institutional type field.
• Analyze the distribution of design degree types (e.g., BA, BFA) across the New England region based on the collected degree type data.
• Map the geographic concentration of undergraduate design programs by state based on the documented state field for each institution.
• Study the variety of program names and specializations within the design field based on the collected program name data.

Strengths

• Covers a defined geographic scope of 66 institutions across six states.
• Includes multiple documented attributes per institution: type, degree, program name, state, and characteristics.
• Data collection method (manual web search) is explicitly stated, providing transparency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the last update timestamp is 2026-06-30 00:54:53.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Manual web searches conducted by the Schlatter team.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-30 00:54:53; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.