Master - Design Management
- 1 year
- Duration
- 24,700 EUR
- Price
- Jan 2026
- Start
- Oct 2025
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Barcelona / Spain
- Location
Program description
This English-language Master's in Design and Innovation taps design's ability to improve business solutions, which benefits both the organization and its customers.
Focusing on innovation and experimentation, this course will teach you how to employ agile development techniques on actual business projects. While planning your final project, you'll visit two European locations for lectures, conferences, and workshops.
In today's competitive marketplace, design plays a crucial role as a strategic differentiator. To ensure that the brand and company's interests are aligned with the demands of the users, this innovation lever provides solutions with a focus on co-creation, based on the research of users and their individual requirements. So that they may contribute effectively to a company, designers must be familiar with business operations. Business leaders also need an appreciation for design's potential, as well as the know-how to effectively apply and manage it across an organization.
Program structure
- CONTENT 1: FINDING VALUE OPPORTUNITIES
- Design Thinking Boot Camp
- Trends & Forecast
- Strategic Design Planning
- Design Research
- CONTENT 2: DEVELOPING DESIGN AND BUSINESS CONCEPTS
- Service Design
- Co-Creation
- Experience Design
- Sustainability
- Storytelling
- CONTENT 3: BRINGING INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS TO THE MARKET
- Brand Management
- Marketing
- Business Model Design
- Business Management
- Financial Management
- SEMINARS
- People Management
- Creativity
- Bodystorming
- STUDY TRIPS
- PROJECTS
- Real Industry Projects
- CBI Project
- Final Project Master's Thesis
Price
Fee for 1 year education is 24700,00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
Students must provide the following information:
- Copy of DNI (Spanish students) or passport (foreign students).
- Copy of university degree (bachelor’s, degree or equivalent).
- Letter of motivation in the language of the Master’s degree course.
- CV in the language of the Master’s degree course specifying language and IT skills.
- Language certificate: Courses in English require an intermediate level, corresponding to TOEFL or IELTS 6.5. Courses in Spanish require a B2 language level. If a prospective student has neither of these certificates, his or her language skills will be assessed in a face-to-face interview or via a Skype call.
- Portfolio for creative Master’s degree courses and/or admission exercise if required.
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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