The 1,200-student college says it is attracting more students, particularly from Asia who are interested in the school's industrial design degrees.

Students from Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia and Singapore are expected to account for 10% of the college's enrollment in the next four to five years, up from 6% today, according to CCS president Richard L. Rogers. He says the college has a waiting list for on-campus housing. Now, some 265 students live on the small campus, but Rogers adds that the number could climb to 500 by 2008.

The college has initiated a study to determine how best to provide housing for additional students, to look at options of renovating the existing Arts Center to accommodate more students or to create nearby off-campus housing.

In the past three years, the school has been expanding its 10.5-acre campus. It built a classroom facility, the Walter B. Ford II Building, which opened in 2001, and a 650-space parking deck. Most recently, the college spent $3.3 million to renovate its Arts and Crafts Building, designed by famed architect Minoru Yamasaki in 1957. Yamasaki, who founded an architectural firm in Troy, designed the World Trade Center in New York.