Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - Business Design
- 3 years
- Duration
- 16,900 EUR/year
- Price
- Sep 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Barcelona / Spain
- Location
Program description
This one-of-a-kind training will teach you how to think creatively and apply your design expertise in a variety of situations.
By identifying your target audience, your value proposition, and your ecosystem of action, you'll hone your abilities to transform creative ideas into practical business plans. You'll learn what tools, resources, and strategies are necessary to implement design in the corporate world.
More and more people with interdisciplinary skill sets are needed in the industry, namely designers who can spot areas for innovation and generate the novel concepts and ideas required to bring them to fruition. This course will teach you how to use design thinking, creative problem solving, and cutting-edge technology to effect positive change in the modern world.
Over the course of three years, you'll learn to work effectively in a group and obtain the practical skills you'll need to found your own business. Your professors are practicing designers who are excited to share what they've learned in the real world.
Program structure
1st YEAR
- Design fundamentals
- Innovation fundamentals
- Technology fundamentals
- Level 4 project
- Transversal workshops
2nd YEAR
- Applied design
- Applied innovation
- Applied technology
- Level 5 project
- Transversal workshops
3rd YEAR
- Design management
- Module innovation management
- Technology management
- Level 6 project
- Transversal workshops
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 16900.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
- Age - be 18 years old by December 31st of the first year of the course;
- Transcripts of their last year of high school (or equivalent, translated into English or Spanish)
- Motivational Letter (500-600 words). Tell us why you’ve chosen this Course and why you want to study with us.
- Submit a 500-600 words essay
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
To prove their proficiency in the required language, the applicant must either:
- submit one of the accepted language certificates listed in the table below (the certificate cannot have been awarded more than 2 years before the application is made to IED);
- take the IED language assessment.
RECOGNISED CERTIFICATES
- IELTS Academic ≥ 5.5
- Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE)
- Cambridge B2 First (FCE)
- Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE)
- B2 Vantage Bulats ≥ 60 (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- TOEFL IBT ≥ 68
- PTE Academic ≥ 59
- ISE Level II (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level III (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level IV (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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