Orange County has its fair share of educational opportunities. The Art Institute of California prepares students for positions as assistant designer, facility planner, or drafts-person. The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising has an interior design program that also offers practical training in CAD illustration, graphics skills, and drafting, but delves into the creative particulars of fashioning living space. At the Interior Designers Institute in Newport Beach, students partake in specialized training that has made the school and its graduates known worldwide.

There are currently 540 positions in the field in Orange County, and government job stats put the growth of positions in the interior design field at 5% per year through 2012. This stat doesn't even include the 12% growth expected in metropolitan Los Angeles in the interior design industry.

• The Art Institute of California - Orange County
  Industrial Design, Interior Design
• Westwood College
  Interior Design
• Interior Designers Institute, Interior Design Program