DESIGN NEWS BUSINESSWEEK – THE BEST 60 DESIGN SCHOOLS IN THE WORLD 2007
A panel of innovation consultants, academics, and executives selected the best design programs around the world. From Arizona State to Zollverein, here are the top 60 schools and courses of note.
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Arizona State University, College of Design Tempe, Ariz. 2,480 students, both grad and undergrad Design, Engineering, and Business Partnerships Academic: Arizona State’s Colleges of Engineering and Business Business: Intel and Herman Miller sponsor class projects. Top Employers: IDEO Claim to Fame: Famous alumni include Hagy Belzberg, Jeffrey Cook, Wellington Reiter, Darren Petrucci, Philip White, Harvey Bryan, Prasad Boradkar, and Jamil Al Shraiky. Signature Programs: InnovationSpace is a studio where students from design, business, and engineering work on company-sponsored prototyping projects as well as projects on sustainable design. GlobalResolve is another interdisciplinary program, where students work on low-cost humanitarian designs for the developing world.
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Art Center College of Design Pasadena, Calif. 1,400 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: INSEAD (France), ESADE (Spain) Business: GE, Nike, Honda, and Whirlpool sponsor class projects. Top Employers: Disney, Electronic Arts, IDEO, Nike, Target, Honda, and BMW Claim to Fame: Yves BĂŠhar of Fuseproject and Chris Bangle of BMW are alumni. Signature Programs: Undergraduate design students do corporate-sponsored projects on product design, and travel to INSEAD in France and Singapore for courses in business. Graduate students learn design strategy to take on management roles in companies.
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Babson College Babson Park, Mass. 3,300 students, both grad and undergrad Business Partnerships Academic: Olin College of Engineering, RISD (new this year) Business: OXO—Babson students designed its salad spinner. Top Employers: Fidelity Investments Claim to Fame: Home Depot co-founder and Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is an alumnus. Signature Programs: In the creativity program, there is a mandatory arts class in the first year of the MBA, to instill creative principles that are invoked in second-year courses on entrepreneurship, innovation, and new-product development.
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Bainbridge Graduate Institute Bainbridge Island, Wash. 140 graduate students Business Top Employers: Most students start own companies, but REI is a big employer Claim to Fame: Founded by Gifford Pinchot, inventor of the term “intrapreneurship.� Signature Programs: An MBA program that focuses on sustainable business. Bainbridge treats creativity as the route to the human insight necessary for socially responsible leadership. Students manage CreateSessions, problem-solving seminars that are structured like design-strategy workshops.
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California College of the Arts San Francisco 1,660 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Köln International School of Design (Germany) Business: Project sponsors include Gaia & Gino, Pantech, Tupperware, Simpson Strong-Tie, Samsung, IDEO, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Timbuk2. Top Employers: Gensler, MBH Architects, Anshen & Allen, Dahlin Group Architecture, Pentagram Claim to Fame: Yves Béhar of Fuseproject is the chair of the industrial design department. Signature Programs: CCA’s longstanding joint product-development program with Berkeley’s business and engineering schools is now focusing on sustainable design. CCA is launching its own Design MBA.
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Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pa. 220 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Business: Course sponsors include Heinz, Alcoa, Microsoft, Motorola, and GM. Carnegie Mellon is also a recurrent partner in Microsoft’s annual design challenge. Top Employers: Google, eBay, Microsoft Claim to Fame: Arnold Wasserman is an alumnus. Signature Programs: The Integrated Product Development program puts business students, designers, and engineers into mixed teams to work on sponsored projects.
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Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London, England 3,789 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Member of University of the Arts, London. Cross-registration opportunities with five other art schools in the university Business: Course project sponsors have included GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, and Tetley. Top Employers: IDEO, Nokia, Philips, LG, Samsung, Herman Miller, NestlĂŠ Claim to Fame: Pierce Brosnan and Stella McCartney are alumni; James Dyson and Jonathan Ive are honorary fellows.
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Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, Ohio 500 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Case Western Weatherhead School of Management Business: Fisher-Price is a course sponsor. Rubbermaid contracts consulting work to CIA. Top Employers: GM and Chrysler Claim to Fame: Marc Brown, creator of Arthur, is an alumnus; so is GM Europe designer Phil Zak. Signature Programs: CIA’s product-design degree, the oldest in the country, puts students to work on real products. In partnership with Case Western’s Weatherhead School and local organizations, CIA is working on social entrepreneurship in Cleveland, trying to bring design businesses to the city in a new “district of design.”
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College for Creative Studies Detroit, Mich. 1,300 undergraduate students Art and Design Partnerships Academic: University of Michigan, Strate Collège (France), Monash University (Australia). CCS is also part of GM’s international consortium. Business: Students have done sponsored work for Michelin, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Fiat, Ferrari, Leo Burnett, and Bayer. Top Employers: Ford, GM, Chrysler, BBDO Claim to Fame: Alumnus Bill Morrison is creative director of Bongo Comics, responsible for The Simpsons and Futurama. Alumnus Ralph Gilles is vice-president for design at Chrysler Signature Programs: A leader in automotive design, CCS teams its students up with U. Michigan engineers to do sponsored projects for the Detroit auto industry. The program requires a one-semester internship, and many students take these with high-profile foreign auto companies like Fiat and Ferrari.
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Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering Hanover, N.H. 305 students, both grad and undergrad Engineering Partnerships Academic: Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth Medical School Business: Course sponsors include Mascoma. Top Employers: GE, Analog Devices, Goldman Sachs Claim to Fame: Dartmouth professor of engineering Tillman Gerngoss is the co-founder of GlycoFi; alumnus Terrence McGuire is the founder of Polaris. Signature Programs: Situated within a liberal arts curriculum, the Thayer School is interdisciplinary by nature, offering courses in engineering design, design thinking, and sustainability to students from business, medicine, and the arts as well as a masters in engineering management. At the Cook Engineering Design Center, students work on sponsored design projects with companies.
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Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands 1,800 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Business: Does client work for Philips and P&G. Top Employers: Google, McKinsey, Microsoft, Siemens Claim to Fame: Adrian van Hooydonk, design director for BMW, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: A design program with a technology and engineering school, TU Delft emphasizes management and ergonomics. Business courses are mandatory in both undergraduate and graduate industrial design degrees, and graduate students do client work for companies. TU Delft also offers a masters in strategy design.
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Design Academy Eindhoven Eindhoven, The Netherlands 700 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: RCA, (United Kingdom), UIAH (Finland), ECAL (Switzerland), ENSCI (France) RISD, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) Business: Professors and students have done project work for Unilever, Sara Lee, and Heinz. Top Employers: Philips, IKEA, Siemens, BMW Claim to Fame: Famous alumni include Hella Jongerius, Maarten Baas, Tord Boontje, Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, and Job Smeets. Signature Programs: In Design Academy’s Compass curriculum, students go through eight “rotations” to expose them to various aspects of design: user-centric categories like leisure and well-being; technological categories in the lab, and business categories, finishing with a mandatory one-semester internship.
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Domus Academy Milan, Italy 200 graduate students Design Partnerships Academic: Bocconi School of Management (Italy) Business: The academy does consulting work for Nike, Samsung, and Hyundai. Top Employers: 3M, Abercrombie & Fitch, Decathlon, Nike, Samsung Claim to Fame: Chief Versace designer Lorenza Baschieri is an alumna. Signature Programs: Not only does Domus Academy incorporate professional internship experience and strategic management thinking into its own design degree, but it offers a joint masters in business design with the Bocconi School of Management.
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ENSCI Les Ateliers Paris, France 215 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: EMUDE, Masters of European Design Business: Project sponsors include Electrolux, Legrand, and Kenwood. Top Employers: Philippe Starck, Lunar, IDEO, L’OrÊal, Renault Signature Programs: A design school that is intimately in touch with business practice, ENSCI partners with technology departments around France and design schools across Europe as well as major global companies to incorporate classes in management and internships with firms for all its industrial and interaction design students.
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ESDI Brasil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 220 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: University of Art & Design Helsinki (Finland), ENSCI Les Ateliers (France), TU Delft (Netherlands), and Kรถln International School of Design (Germany) Business: Course project sponsors include Microsoft, Electrolux, and Motorola, which runs a lab on campus. Top Employers: Most students start their own companies. Claim to Fame: Oscar-nominated cinematographer Walter Carvalho is an alumnus, as is Ivo Kos, art director of recent movies The Matrix and Ratatouille. Signature Programs: Offering degrees in Integrated Product Design and Design Methods, ESDI connects to students in local and international businesses for projects, while a university design incubator lets students turn their own projects into viable business models. Recently, resources have been given to courses and projects in sustainable design, some of which have been sponsored by Microsoft.
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George Brown College Toronto, Ont. 700 graduate students Design Partnerships Academic: Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), DUOC (Chile), Veritas University (Costa Rica) Business: Course sponsors include Canada Mortgage Assn., government agencies, Magna. Top Employers: IDEO, Bruce Mau, Umbra Claim to Fame: Paul Rowan, co-founder of Umbra, is an alumnus; so is Alex Wigington, creative director of Oxygen Design. Signature Programs: George Brown’s innovative design program offers degrees in design management. A 10-month graduate program on sustainable design is currently working on World House, a global initiative to design sustainable affordable housing.
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Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Ga. 200 students, both grad and undergrad Engineering Partnerships Academic: National Institute of Design, (India); Hong Kong Polytechnic (China) Business: IBM co-sponsored a design conference. Media students do projects with Sony, Turner Broadcasting, and Disney. Top Employers: Coca-Cola, Fossil, GE, Slingshot Claim to Fame: Famous alumni include Michelle Berryman, president, Industrial Designers Society of America; Katie Gray, vice-president, F16 Sensors, Northrop Grumman; Carrie Davis, global design manager, Coca-Cola; Bruce Claxton, senior director for design integration, Motorola; David Bingham, design manager, GE; Ken Musgrave, director of design and usability, Dell Computers Signature Programs: Georgia Tech’s many design-related departments (digital media, industrial design, and engineering) share resources to let students pursue interdisciplinary programs in design and management or design and information. In the University’s prototyping lab, they also do contract work for companies.
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Harvard Business School Boston, Mass. 1,821 graduate students Business Partnerships Business: AIGA. Claim to Fame: Lou Gerstner of IBM is an alumnus, as is Meg Whitman of Ebay. Signature Programs: Harvard professor Stefan Thomke teaches mandatory courses for all MBA students on operations management that fold in innovation, product development, and design thinking. His executive education curriculum has a course in design management and leadership.
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Hochschule Pforzheim Pforzheim, Germany 75 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: RISD, UIAH (Finland), ENSCI Les Ateliers (France), NID (India), Hongik University (South Korea) Business: Course clients have included the former DaimlerChrysler. Top Employers: frog design, IDEO, BMW, Porsche Claim to Fame: Famous alumni include Michael Mauer, head of design at Porsche; Peter Faasbender, head of design at Saab; Thomas Ingenlath, head of design at Skoda; and Claus Potthoff, head of exterior design at Audi. Signature Programs: Pforzheim’s design program places students in project studios to design products for companies. The school is now looking to expand its offerings in marketing and management studies. In its graduate studies, Pforzheim takes students with backgrounds in design, sponsored by corporate employers to learn the ties between design and business. This year, they will be launching a creative design Masters with a focus on design leadership.
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China 1,300 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: KÜln Institute (Germany), TU Delft (Netherlands), UIAH (Finland) Business: Has done projects with Benetton and Bang & Olufsen. Top Employers: TCL, Philips Claim to Fame: Vivienne Tam, fashion designer is an alumna Signature Programs: Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s College of Design offers business-minded degrees such as design strategy, product innovation, and design in practice. In a strategic design lab, students work with companies on design projects. In the Asian lifestyle lab, they collect ethnographic and anthropological data to help international companies target products to Asian consumers.
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Hongik University College of Design Seoul, South Korea 1,140 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: RCA (United Kingdom), RISD Business: Course sponsors include Nissan and GM. Top Employers: Samsung, GM Claim to Fame: SunGul Whang, design manager for Motorola, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Although Hongik is known chiefly for the technical skill of its product-design graduates, theoretical, environmental and human factors are getting increased attention in its program as companies now come to the school with sponsored projects in user-centered design.
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Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design Chicago, Ill. 150 graduate students Design and Business Partnerships Academic: IIT’s Stuart School of Business. Business: IIT has done consulting work for Kraft, Innovo, and P&G. Top Employers: Doblin, IDEO, Samsung Claim to Fame: Famous alumni include Ilya Prokopoff, co-director of the Transformation Group at IDEO and Ewan Duncan, partner at McKinsey. Signature Programs: A graduate program specializing in user-centric design offers students a dual degree with the business school, teaching business executives to use design strategy to solve corporate challenges.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Centre Mumbai, India 62 graduate students Design Partnerships Business: Member, International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. Top Employers: Ashok Leyland, Honeywell, Tata Motors, Ford, Motorola and Microsoft Signature Programs: IIT’s Industrial Design Centre takes a broad and holistic approach, combining mandatory art and marketing components into an industrial design course. Students and professors both do consultancy work and sponsored projects for Mumbai industry, and the Institute hosts conferences on innovation for business leaders from around the world.
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Köln International School of Design Cologne, Germany 460 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Master of European Design, Shih Chien (Taiwan), Parsons, Musashino (Japan), CCA, Arizona State Business: Does projects for Nokia, Siemens, German Telecom, Motorola, and Coca-Cola. Top Employers: German Telecom and Vodafone Claim to Fame: Alumna Nina Kleebank is project manager at Interbrand Germany; alumnus Markus Kossmann is product developer at Lego’s headquarters in Dublin. Signature Programs: With a focus on service design and user-centricity, Köln offers a program in design thinking. With its projects for major German companies, the school is expanding its curriculum on design management.
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Kaos Pilot International Aarhus, Denmark 135 students, both grad and undergrad Design and Business Partnerships Academic: Runs its own affiliate schools in Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands Business: Course clients have included Google, Apple, and Carlsberg. Top Employers: Lego, Statoil Signature Programs: Kaos Pilot International is an interdisciplinary business program that takes students at both the graduate and undergraduate level and puts them into interdisciplinary teams with leaders, but no official professors, to travel internationally and work on design projects for companies or as social enterprises.
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Keio University Tokyo, Japan 4,876 students, both grad and undergrad Engineering and Business Partnerships Academic: Imperial College, London; University of Technology, (Germany), Xian Jiaotong, (China); Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) Business: Nissan Motor and Yosuhara-cho Kouchi prefecture are course sponsors. Top Employers: Canon, Toyota, Sony, Tokyo Gas, Nomura Research Institute, Nissan Signature Programs: In the engineering degrees at Keio University, professors have an institutional approach to technological innovation, focusing on the role of engineering design in organizations and companies and putting students to work on sponsored projects for auto companies like Nissan.
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon, South Korea 526 students, both grad and undergrad Business and Engineering Partnerships Academic: Cumulus member. Also has its own partnerships with UIAH (Finland), Tsinghua (China), Cheng Kung (Taiwan), CMU, TU Delft (Netherlands), and IIT Industrial Design Centre (India) Business: Work with science park research institutes like ETRI (Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute), Bluecean, and Woongjin. Top Employers: Samsung, LG, SKT Claim to Fame: S.Y. Kim, executive director U.S., Samsung Design and Y.H. Jung, director, Design Center Asia, Nokia are alumni. Signature Programs: KAIST puts together engineers and business students to work on the business applications of scientific research. Through its design innovation center, students can turn their own projects into business ideas. Meanwhile, companies sponsor class projects for graduate engineers.
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London College of Communication London, England 9,000 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: ECCA Enterprise Centre for the Creative Arts is open to students from all other London U. of the Arts colleges Business: Has done projects for Jordan Oil and EPR Architects. Top Employers: John Brown Citrus Publishing, BBC, Red Bee Media, The Times, Reuters. Claim to Fame: Sir Charles Saatchi, founder of Saatchi & Saatchi is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Truly an arts college for businesspeople, LCC offers classical graphic and product design degrees as well as a marketing degree in creative enterprise. At the Enterprise Centre for Creative Arts, arts students learn about business management. In the Design Practice, a college consultancy, students work for real business clients on design projects.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. 1,937 graduate students Engineering and Business Partnerships Academic: RISD, Tsinghua (China) Business: MIT has sponsored internships with Dell, Intel, and Alcoa and sponsored course work with Nokia. Top Employers: Dell, Intel Claim to Fame: John Reed, ex-Citicorp CEO, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Setting an industry standard in collaborative classes, MIT offers a product development course joining MBA students and engineers with designers from RISD. In addition, MIT students take interdisciplinary courses in leadership and manufacturing, and can take advantage of research labs in media, global entrepreneurship, and, as of this year, sustainability.
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Musashino Art University Tokyo, Japan 7,589 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: University of the Arts, London; KISD (Germany); Pratt; UIAH (Finland); Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy) Business: University cooperation projects with Toshiba, IKEA, Nissan, and Casio. Top Employers: Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Honda, IBM, Toyota Claim to Fame: Shiro Nakamura of Nissan, Satoshi Wada of Audi, and Toyoyuki Uematsu of Panasonic are alumni. Signature Programs: In addition to a traditional arts and design curriculum, Musashino offers degrees in arts management and the science of design. Almost all professors are professional practitioners, and students have the chance to work with companies on hands-on design projects, specializing in automotive and consumer electronics industries, where many Musashino graduates work.
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National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan 20,000 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: KAIST (Korea), IIT, CMU, TU Delft (Netherlands), CCS, RCA (London), Monash (Australia), Musashino (Japan) Business: Has done projects for Johnson & Johnson. Top Employers: J&J, Nova Design Claim to Fame: Wen-Lon Chen, President of NOVA is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Industrial design students at NCKU work on class projects with companies. At Cheng Kung’s new Institute of Creative Industry Design, students from the school’s six departments are placed on interdisciplinary teams and taught by professors from all fields to develop prototypes and business plans.
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National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, India 650 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: ENSCI (France), RCA (London), Shenkar (Israel) Business: Has worked with Fiat, Autodesk, GM, and Whirlpool. Top Employers: Suzuki, Whirpool, Infosys Claim to Fame: Alumnus Satish Gokhale runs consultancy and studio Design Directions, a four-time Design Excellence award winner. Signature Programs: A design institution with strong links to industry, NID offers students the chance to work with companies on class design projects and on rapid prototyping through its consulting arm, the Design Vision Centre. In addition, NID now offers a degree program in strategic design.
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North Carolina State University College of Design Raleigh, N.C. 750 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Business School at North Carolina State University; joint degree with IAE in France on Global Innovation Management and an exchange with the University of Prague (Czech Republic) Business: Course project sponsors include GlaxoSmithKline, Nortel, John Deere, IBM. Top Employers: IDEO, IBM, Industrial Light & Magic, USA Today, dwell Claim to Fame: Alumnus Mark Kimbaugh designed Dell’s first laptops. Signature Programs: In the interdisciplinary innovation concentration, designers, engineers and MBA students work together on lab projects for companies. Engineers and MBAs also team up in a Service Design concentration that is partially sponsored by IBM. In a joint degree with the Insitutute of Aix-enProvence, NC students complete their projects for international companies whilst on a semester in France.
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Northwestern University’s Kellogg and McCormick Schools Evanston, Ill. 1,815 graduate students Business and Engineering Partnerships Business: Executives from companies like SCJohnson, Abbott Labs, and Whirlpool are on the Kellogg and McCormick boards, helping develop curricula that match professional practice. Top Employers: Harley-Davidson Claim to Fame: Matt Levatich, vice-president of Harley-Davidson, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: In addition to product design, innovation, and social enterprise classes within its MBA and executive education programs, Northwestern offers a dual degree between its business and engineering schools where students are free to take classes from the full offerings of both fields.
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NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program New York, N.Y. 230 graduate students Arts Top Employers: Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! Claim to Fame: Dodgeball.com was an NYU senior thesis by Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert. Signature Programs: Breaking new ground in communications, Professor Red Burns has art students, designers from all fields, and students from other NYU programs work on rapid prototyping and interactive media design.
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Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) Oslo, Norway 150 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Norwegian School of Management, member Cumulus network Business: Project work for Live Work and the Norwegian lottery company, Gjensidige. Claim to Fame: Edvard Munch was an alumnus. Signature Programs: Students in all design degrees at Oslo National Academy of the Arts take classes in various aspects of business from management to finance to marketing. One course is a joint course with the Oslo School of Management that simultaneously exposes business students to design approaches and strategy. In their final year, design students can apply to work in a design-business incubator or take project work in companies.
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Parsons The New School for Design New York, N.Y. 3,598 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Columbia Business School, La Escuela de Disenso at Alto de Chavon (the Dominican Republic), Kanazawa International Design Institute (Japan), Central Academy of Fine Arts (China) Business: Project sponsors include Target, Kiehl’s, and Samsung. Claim to Fame: Tom Ford, Donna Karan, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Norman Rockwell, Steven Meisel, and Joel Schumacher are all alumni. Signature Programs: Companies like Target sponsor projects in Parsons’ design programs. The school also offers a business strategy focused degree in Design & Management.
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Polytechnic University of Milan Milan, Italy 38,000 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Design Management Week is a conference open to MBAs from global schools to discuss design; also has partnerships with Harvard Business School, MIT, and Tongji University in China Business: Educational partnership with Ferrari. Top Employers: Ferrari, Fiat, Continuum Claim to Fame: Noted alumni include Giovanni Battista Pirelli, founder of Pirelli; Giulio Natta, founder of Kartell; Ernesto Gismondi, founder of Artemide. Signature Programs: A relatively young program, Milan Polytechnic hopes to provide both designers and managers with some knowledge of the other’s discipline through a degree in strategic design and an MBA concentration in design management.
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Pratt Institute Brooklyn, N.Y. 4,762 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Columbia medical school Business: Smart Design Top Employers: Smart Design Claim to Fame: Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s PLANYC 2030, a challenge to the city to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, was launched in partnership with Pratt on the Institute’s campus. Signature Programs: One of the oldest programs in design strategy, Pratt has offered a masters in design management since 2000.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, N.Y. 7,433 students, both grad and undergrad Engineering and Design Partnerships Academic: Technical University (Denmark) Business: RPI co-hosted a conference on design with IBM. Top Employers: Accenture, Arcadi, Bank of America, BAE Systems, Boeing, Capital IQ, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, Deloitte Consulting, Exxon Mobil, FactSet Research Systems, GE, General Dynamics Electric Boat Claim to Fame: Professor Burt Swersey holds 14 patents and recently won the Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award. Signature Programs: Offering innovative undergraduate degrees in product design and business ethics and graduate courses in innovation and technology, RPI is a school for the inventors of the future. All of its programs combine engineering with business, the arts, and the social sciences, and students do projects for corporate sponsors in an interdisciplinary design lab called Inventor’s Studio.
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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, R.I. 2,258 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: MIT Sloan, Brown University Engineering, and, as of this year, Babson College Business: Nokia is a perennial project sponsor. Top Employers: Nickelodeon, Target, Martha Stewart Claim to Fame: Chris van Allsburg, creative mastermind behind such hits as Jumanji, is an alumnus. So is Seth MacFarlane, the creator of hit show Family Guy. Signature Programs: RISD’s partnership with MIT sets the standard for interdisciplinary teaching, putting designers, MBAs, and engineers into teams to work on product development and business models. Sometimes projects are for corporate clients like Nokia; other times students turn them into entrepreneurial startups of their own.
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Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, N.Y. 700 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Engineering and Computer Science Colleges at RIT, U. of Copenhagen (Denmark), Dessau Dept. of Design, Hochschule Anhalt (Germany) Business: Has done client projects for Xerox, IBM, Kodak. Top Employers: Kodak, Landor Associates Claim to Fame: Lee Green, vice-president for brand experience at IBM, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Industrial, graphics, and new-media designers at RIT collaborate with RIT engineers and business students on projects for companies like Kodak and Xerox. Since they can cross-register in business and engineering classes, designers also have access to the business school’s programs in innovation and entrepreneurship, where they can incubate design ideas into potential startups.
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Royal College of Art London, England 861 graduate students Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Tsinghua University (China), launching a new joint program with Imperial College London’s Engineering Faculty and Tanaka Business School Business: Project work for Unilever, P&G, and Sony. Top Employers: Apple, Sony, Panasonic, Virgin Claim to Fame: James Dyson is an alumnus. Signature Programs: An industrial design program that emphasizes strategy and business innovation. RCA takes its students on global design trips and helps them turn their projects into businesses through their InnovationRCA Lab. This year, RCA is launching a partership program with Imperial College of London’s Engineering Faculty and Tanaka Business School.
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San Jose State University, School of Art & Design San Jose, Calif. 1,100 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Founding partnerships with NID in India and ENSCI in France Business: Herman Miller, Legrand, Bell Sports. Top Employers: Adobe, Apple, Sun Microsystems Claim to Fame: Leslie Speer, former coordinator of the UC-Berkeley-CCA partnership, has just finished her first year as an instructor in the Industrial Design department at San Jose State. Signature Programs: One of the nation’s top-ranked art programs, San Jose State is growing increasingly business-minded, starting a partnership with UC-Berkeley’s business school on newproduct design, where projects are company-sponsored. In the future, Leslie Speer hopes to organize a partnership between the business and design fields within San Jose State.
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Shih Chien University Taipei, Taiwan 600 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Exchange with Tsinghua University, (China), partnership with local business school, launching exchange with MIT in 2008 Business: Has worked for Motorola. Signature Programs: In an interdisciplinary program with Taipei Business School, companies send representatives to teach as guest lecturers. Design students have the chance to work for corporate clients like Motorola.
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Stanford University: Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and the Product Design Engineering Program Palo Alto, Calif. 300 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Art, business, education, engineering, medicine, and social sciences at Stanford Business: Private, public, and NGOs. Top Employers: Google, Apple, IDEO, Monitor, Microsoft Claim to Fame: David Kelley, founder, IDEO is an alumnus as are Jerry Manock, designer of the original Macintosh; and Perry Klebahn, founder, Atlas Snow Shoes. Signature Programs: An interdisciplinary center offering classes to students from all fields at Stanford, the Hasso Plattner Institute puts pupils into interdisciplinary teams, where they work on ethnographic research and user-centered design for such corporate clients as Mozilla, Instant Ramen, and Timbuk2. Meanwhile, Stanford’s product design undergraduate degree has been producing leaders in innovation for 50 years, including IDEO’s David Kelley.
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Strate Collège Paris, France 400 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Cumulus member, exchange programs with over 20 schools worldwide, joint degree with engineering school Ecole des Mines (France) Business: Course sponsors include Hyundai, Renault, GM. Top Employers: Renault, GM, Mercedes, L’Oréal, Goodyear, Decathlon Signature Programs: Known especially for its excellence in product and transport design, Strate Collège has recently launched an interdisciplinary degree in innovation management in partnership with engineering school Ecole des Mines. Graduates of this one-year degree often go on to become translators between design and engineering at the managerial level in major French companies.
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Tongji University Shanghai, China 529 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Cumulus member, partnerships with Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), UIAH (Finland) Business: Does consulting for Nissan, Volkswagen, and Decathlon. Top Employers: LOE Design, Pan Asia Automotive Center Claim to Fame: Song Xiaofeng of Sony Design Center, Japan, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Through Tongji’s consulting arm, Greenchain, design students do work for international corporations like Volkswagen and Nissan.
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Tsinghua University Beijing, China 1,530 students, both grad and undergrad Art and Design Partnerships Academic: KAIST (Korea), RCA (United Kingdom), IIT Top Employers: Motorola, Nokia Claim to Fame: Du Baonan, senior designer for GM, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Like many Asian design schools, Tsinghua is newly expanding from a technical to a strategic focus. The university is also a crucial player in the internationalization of design as it holds partnerships with leading design schools in Europe and America.
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U. of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art & Planning Program Cincinnati, Ohio 2,300 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: Engineering and business at U. of Cincinnati Business: P&G sponsors a collaborative program on eco-design; sponsored projects with GE, General Mills, and Citigroup. Top Employers: P&G Claim to Fame: Sam Lucente, director of design and brand experience at HP, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Like many of the schools on our list, Cincinnati Design does sponsored work for corporate clients, but what really sets the school apart is its cooperative system in which students are required to spend part of their degree working off campus for a company, graduating as professionals.
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U. of Illinois, Chicago Chicago, Ill. 620 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Business: Motorola is sponsoring a new research center; also does contract work for Whirlpool, Rayco, and P&G. Top Employers: Whirlpool, P&G, Nike Claim to Fame: Stephan Andren of Nike Lab is an alumnus. Signature Programs: UIC offers interdisciplinary product-design courses as part of its design degree that are open to business and engineering students, and where projects are company-sponsored. Additionally, the university is deeply involved in design for the local Chicago community urban planning and design for social equity. This year, Motorola will be partnering with the program to launch an Innovation Center.
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U. of Michigan, Integrated Product Development Program Ann Arbor, Mich. 40 students, both grad and undergrad Business and Engineering Partnerships Academic: CCS Detroit Business: Tauber Institute Top Employers: Steelcase Claim to Fame: Shaun Jackson, founder of Eclipse, is an IPD professor. Signature Programs: Corporate partners at the Tauber Institute sponsor the university’s integrated product-development program, where designers, engineers and MBAs team up to propose business plans and prototypes, then let local consumers vote on the final products in a trade show.
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U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management Toronto, Ont. 800 graduate students Business Partnerships Academic: Ontario School of Art & Design Business: Course sponsors include Whirlpool, Medtronic, and Continuum. Top Employers: J&J, P&G, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, IDEO, Digital Cement Claim to Fame: Innovation leader Roger Martin is on the faculty. Signature Programs: Rotman was among the first business schools to begin teaching design as a strategic advantage, through product development and prototyping classes that pair designers with MBAs, through a Designworks research center, and through internships that give students hands-on experience in R&D.
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U.C-Berkeley, Haas School of Business Berkeley, Calif. 2,248 graduate students Business Partnerships Academic: California College of the Arts; San Jose State University Top Employers: Google, Bank of America, Deloitte, Yahoo!, McKinsey Claim to Fame: Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel is an alumnus, as is Rodrigo de Rato, managing director of the IMF. Professor Laura Tyson was an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton. Signature Programs: Berkeley and CCA are known for their twelve-year-old partnership in a product design course, where engineers, business students, and designers work on prototypes and business plans. In addition, Berkeley’s own business programs offer courses in design as strategy, design thinking, and labs in innovation and technology, as well as a certificate program in management of technology that folds in most of the design-related classes.
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UCLA Design Media Arts Department Los Angeles, Calif. 209 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Business: Ogilvy & Mather sends a brand expert each year to co-teach the program’s Brand Lab. Top Employers: Wieden & Kennedy, Walt Disney Claim to Fame: Producer Robert Abel is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Within a hybrid degree of design media arts, focused on media arts for corporate marketing fields, students can enroll in Rebeca Méndez’ brand lab, where they work with a guest professor from Ogilvy & Mather to develop marketable strategies for hypothetical brands.
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UMEA Institute of Design Umea, Sweden 224 students, both grad and undergrad Design Partnerships Academic: MIT, University of Southern Denmark Business: Course project sponsors include Microsoft, Palm, Nokia, Ericsson, and Volvo. Top Employers: Nokia, Volvo, Toyota, Microsoft Claim to Fame: Erik Ahlgren, designer at Ericsson, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Long known for its expertise in transport design and client work for major auto companies, UMEA Institute of Design is expanding its work in service design through a collaboration with the municipal government of Umea, doing projects in disabled and elderly services.
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University of Art & Design Helsinki Helsinki, Finland 1,700 graduate students Art and Design Partnerships Academic: Founding an Innovation University with the local business school and technology school; epedagogy program with other European schools, member Cumulus and Erasmus Business: Does client work for Finnish companies like Kone and Semamco. Top Employers: Nokia, Marimekko, ABB, Philips, Siemens, and Kone Claim to Fame: Alumna Marukka Makela is a project manager at Kone. Signature Programs: At UIAH, design students can take classes in other Helsinki universities, like the school of technology and the school of business. They can pursue the joint degree in business design management between the three schools, soon to become a joint institution, the School for Creative Entrepreneurship. Within UIAH, students explore the links between design and business in the design strategy and leaders in design degrees, and through Designium, a university-run consultancy for businesses.
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University of Oxford, Saïd Business School Oxford, England 225 graduate students Business Partnerships Academic: Royal College of Art (England), Goldsmiths College (England), Northumbria University (England), London Business School (England) Business: Has done projects for Disney and L’Oréal. Top Employers: McKinsey, Accenture, Morgan Stanley Claim to Fame: Hayden Hamilton, CEO of ProgressiveRX, is an alumnus. Signature Programs: Saïd MBAs take mandatory courses in design and operations management, and have the option of an eight-week elective in design leadership and one in strategic consulting, where they do work for corporate clients.
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Virginia Commonwealth University Adcenter Richmond, Va. 182 graduate students Design Partnerships Business: Adcenter has done projects for Motorola, Napster, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Yahoo! Top Employers: The Martin Agency, TBWA, Circuit City Claim to Fame: Professor Richard Boyko is former chief creative officer at Ogilvy & Mather. Signature Programs: At Adcenter, professionals from major marketing firms and ad agencies teach interdisciplinary classes to students in communications and business fields. In project workshops, students work with real clients and develop portfolios that go beyond traditional advertising campaigns to innovations in packaging, brand experience, and store design.
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Zollverein School of Management and Design Essen, Germany 46 graduate students Design and Business Partnerships Academic: Liaison partnership with six other schools, soon to be launching with University of Kansas Business: Has worked with 3M. Top Employers: Deutsche Klinekom, Interbrand, Karlstadt Signature Programs: A graduate school for management and design, Zollverein offers an executive MBA on design leadership, an architecture degree with a business focus, and a corporate consulting service focus on design as innovation strategy. [ Source : BusinessWeek ]
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http://www.idasia.org/businessweek-the-best-60-design-schools-in-the-world-2007/
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