下面是2012年USNEWS美国大学绘画制图设计专业研究生排名，罗得岛设计学院位居第一。
1 Rhode Island School of Design
2 Cranbrook Academy of Art
3 Yale University耶鲁大学
4 Virginia Commonwealth University
5 Carnegie Mellon University卡内基美隆大学
6 Maryland Institute College of Art
7 School of Visual Arts
8 California Institute of the Arts
9 Pratt Institute
10 California College of the Arts
11 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
12 New School--Parsons School of Design
13 Rochester Institute of Technology罗彻斯特理工学院
14 University of Cincinnati辛辛那提大学
15 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
