IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona
Bachelor in Product Design - Transportation Design
Barcelona, Spain
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 16,900 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Total Fee UE Students: €15,100 - Total Fee Extra UE Students: €16,900
Key Summary
About: The Bachelor of Arts in Design (Transportation Design) at IED Barcelona centers on learning-by-doing and research in material culture. The degree is valid across the European Higher Education Area and totals 240 ECTS credits over four academic years. You'll develop real or speculative projects and work with industry partners.
Career Outcomes: Graduates often become car interior and exterior designers, motorcycle designers, ship and aeronautical designers, public-transportation designers, and color & trim specialists. IED alumni work at firms like Bertone, Lamborghini, BMW, McLaren, Seat and Hyundai, opening pathways into automotive, mobility, marine and transportation industries, design studios and consultancy roles.
The Bachelor of Arts in Product Design, pathway in Transportation Design is a real one-off in Spain. This program, taught in English, opens the doors to a professional world where you can project your passion for mobility through design. You’ll design not only the interiors and exteriors of all kinds of vehicles, you'll develop complete transportation systems and a wide range of accessories for the sector.
By studying a comprehensive, versatile and interdisciplinary syllabus with lecturers who have years of professional experience in mobility, you’ll develop projects that combine the latest technology with user experience to produce solutions that embrace sustainable values in vehicles designed to thrill, move, and be used.
This program gives you not just a global overview but also a specific insight into the sector, everything you need to work on different types of vehicles: cars and two-wheelers, surface vessels and underwater vessels, trucks, public transport, and more.
The Bachelor of Arts in Design is valid throughout the European Higher Education Area, equivalent to an official university degree, and is accredited by the Agency for the Quality of the University System. This programme grants access to official university master’s degrees and, where applicable, to doctoral studies.
The course is based on a learning-by-doing methodology, so you’ll be drafting and developing real or speculative projects right from the first step you take on your pathway in Transportation Design. You’ll have the chance to start your professional career working with some of the major names on the international market.
There are 60 places available for first-year students majoring in Product Design. Of these places, there is no specific number assigned by pathway or language.
The Bachelor of Arts has a total of 240 ECTS credits divided into four academic years. It is valid throughout the European Higher Education Area and, to all intents and purposes, is equivalent to an official university degree, and accredited by the Agency for the Quality of the University System. This program enables access to official master’s degrees.
During the 4-year Transportation Design program you’ll discover how to channel all your passion, talent and creativity in a professional field that’s constantly changing, with every day bringing new challenges.
Thanks to the hands-on approach to learning, you’ll acquire an intimate understanding of the market, anticipating the requirements of major brands, creating a specific project that may, if approved, go into industrial production.
It’s the only official program in Transportation Design on the Iberian Peninsula, a specialisation that gives you in-depth insight into various sectors of the mobility industry (cars, bikes, boats, drones, public transport, and more).
Sharing part of the syllabus with students from the Interior Design or Product Design programs gives you a greater understanding of the design world, a broader perspective and a unique viewpoint from which to explore new lines of research in your work.
Being able to study design in English in a city like Barcelona opens the doors for you to the European and international market: Barcelona is a point of reference in European urban design. The city of Barcelona has paved the way in recent years and become a leading light in the world of two-wheeled mobility and public transport. Barcelona also has a thriving marine design, ship and boat-building industry, which makes it the ideal place for you to develop revolutionary marine design projects.
IED Network offers 182 scholarships for its Undergraduate courses held in Italy and Spain.
IED Italia and Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli offer 152 scholarships for courses held in Milan, Cagliari, Florence, Rome, Turin and in Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli in Como. Deadline to apply May 5th 2022.
IED Spain offers 30 scholarships for courses held in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.
Deadline to apply April 5th 2022
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Car interior and exterior designers, motorcycles, ships, aeronautical sector, public transportation, color&trim, etc.
IED Design alumni work at:
Bertone, Frecan, Capmar, Projeckta, Zicla, Lamborghini, Hyundai, Grupo Pangea, Seat, Fun Lab, Orbitel, Cazaly Sylvain, Home Design, MTL Brands, BMW, McLaren, BM Lightning Design, Design Dies, Ubica, Estudi Interiorisme Salietti, Pia Capdevila, VMoto Europa, Scutum Logistics, Gama Ubica, Tarrago Cortés Interioristes, Ibisland Invest, Interiodista Decoración Digital, etc.
Companies
The course promotes the project culture with companies to solve the distance between education and the world of work. Students not only acknowledge methodologies and tools for their discipline but also learn to work and get in touch with real clients and briefings.
Companies that have collaborated with the area: Ferrari, Iniciativa BMW, Seat, Mercedes Benz, Casa Decor, Volvo, Unopiù, Frecan, Primavera Sound, Orbea, Panasonic, Derbi, Renault, Zicla, Roca, Decoexpo, Alstom, Hyundai, Toyota, Panatta Sport, Illy, Capmar, Piquadro, Entitat Metropolitana del Transport, Japan Tobacco International, AHEC, Elite Gourmet, Vmoto, Omega Z, I+ED Lab, Idearideas, Architecture for Humanity, Consorzio Tecnologie Meccaniche Centro Italia, Volta Motorbikes, Casa Gracia BCN and Los Cármenes.
This program is for students who want to develop their creative skills in the world of transportation, who want to play a professional role in the evolution of transportation.
It’s for forward thinkers, people who look to the future with a strategic and global vision, who fully comprehend that industrial development must meet the challenges of sustainable living and improved user experience.
It’s for people who are comfortable working in 3D environments, with virtual reality and in a metaverse, and who are just as comfortable working with traditional modelling materials like clays or sketching, people willing to lead the way creating new transportation trends and highly aesthetic mobility lines for the future. In direct contact with renowned international companies, you’ll find out exactly what goes into state-of-the-art projects in a contemporary work context.