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MA Design Management

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    MA 1 year full-time, 16-24 months (with professional experience)

Course Description

As a Design Management student you will develop skills in the leadership and management of creative practice and associated practitioners. It will provide you with the capability to support effective outcomes and operations in businesses where creative activity is a part of their overall strategy. This is an increasingly valuable and widely applicable profession as it helps business to optimise their innovation, new product development and stakeholder insights. It will attract students from all creative disciplines as well as those from business and marketing.

  • The situation of the course within a creative environment will help you to engage and collaborate with practical insight and to have a good understanding of the design development process.
  • You will engage in a mixture of creative design (through peer collaborations with design students) and the practice of management and leadership processes to equip them to lead creative design within the commercial environment.
  • You are provided with multiple options for the expression of the creative explorations, including academic writing, poster design, video outcomes, oral and visual presentations, digital portfolios and online content.
  • Key features of the course are the opportunity for working with live client projects, international travel experiences2, and where possible, Collaborative Online International Learning projects (COIL) with collaborating study institutions.

Entry Requirements

A good 2:2 undergraduate degree or higher grade in a creative subject, management, business or related subject area.

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Programme Funding

Funding opportunities including scholarships available

Student Destinations

Professionals capable of managing creative teams who can produce innovative new product solutions are increasingly sought after in the UK, Europe, the USA and particularly in the major developing economies.

On the course, you will gain knowledge of both creative design and management processes, designed to prepare you for leadership and decision-making positions within product design agencies, manufacturing companies, design consultancies, research and development departments, research institutions and government bodies. Specific careers might include acting as a design team leader, design project manager, design researcher and design policy maker.

Professional enhancement is central to our ethos: therefore we place emphasis on the development of evidence-based decision making, high level leadership and communication skills. This is the reason we also encourage collaboration with industry practitioners and work on ‘live’ project briefs.

Module Details

With professional experience option

The professional experience opportunity enables you to apply for optional professional experience in semester 1, which, upon successfully securing an opportunity, will extend the duration of your master’s to either 16, 20 or 24 months. The professional experience provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability.

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