Master of Arts in Innovation through Business, Engineering and Design. Specialization: Design
Växjö, Sweden
MSc
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 Jan 2027
EARLIEST START DATE
31 Aug 2027
TUITION FEES
SEK 430,800 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* tuition fees for students outside EU/EES/Switzerland: 430,800 SEK total for the program
Key Summary
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The two-year master’s program in ‘Innovation through Business, Engineering, and Design provides students with an understanding of how multidisciplinary knowledge supported by theoretical insight and emerging technologies can bridge with the social needs and values of our societies to provide the best possible local and global futures.
Degree
Master of Arts with specialization in Innovation through Business, Engineering, and Design. The main field of study: Transdisciplinary Design and Sustainability.
This is Linnaeus University
Linnaeus University is a modern, international university in the southeast of Sweden. We are located in two nature-loving cities, one by the Baltic sea and one surrounded by lakes in the greenest city in Europe. More facts about Linnaeus University:
- Founded in 2010 through a merger between Kalmar University and Växjö University;
- Located in Kalmar and Växjö;
- 44,000 enrolled students;
- 2,200 enrolled international students;
- 6th largest university in Sweden in terms of the number of students;
- 780 partner universities in more than 80 countries;
- 100-degree programs on the first-cycle level, 8 of them taught in English;
- 80-degree programs on the second-cycle level, 35 of them taught in English.
Växjö
Roughly 15 minutes by bike from the city center, you will find Linnaeus University’s campus. It is like a small society with a university, student accommodation, and student life. Here you become part of a creative knowledge environment.
What will you come across on an excursion in Växjö – the city of contrasts? You will find good restaurants, a celebrated hockey team, and cozy cafés where you can enjoy a latte with lingonberry flavor. In Växjö, beautiful nature is always just around the corner; the city is surrounded by lakes and forests. Students like the combination of the city center and the active student life on campus. Your dream of the future starts here!
Companies and organizations worldwide need professionals that can carry out collaborative creativity to innovate and support sustainable development. Students trained in multidisciplinary innovation teams are best suited to meet such expectations. The program empowers the students with knowledge on key issues of the modern world such as design thinking, system engineering, circular economy, conscious consumption, and frugal innovation, to name a few. Graduates of this program can effectively use their acquired knowledge from product and service design, new business approaches, and technology applications for sustainable development to create unique and cost-effective solutions for the issue at hand. They become excellent co-workers as their multiple perspective training in the program provides them with the right tools to encourage motivation, trust respect for diversity, leadership, and communication skills, all essential characteristics of a valued employee and team member.
International opportunities
The language of tuition is English. In this way, you will become prepared not only for a career in Sweden but also for a career in international contexts. The program admits students from all over the world, which means that you will get international and multicultural experiences throughout the program. Further opportunity for internationalization is provided through the opportunity to study a semester abroad at one of our partner universities around the world.
Students engage with local and international companies and organizations to train in the innovation process in teams with different competencies and work in an environment of collaborative creativity. This unique learning model empowers program participants with the right skills and methods to apply business-, engineering- and design-led perspectives to complex societal issues by a co-creative approach and guides them to further evaluate innovative products and services to create a sustainable effect on the people and the planet.
Complimentary to the core academic studies, students engage with IKEA, the program’s main industrial partner. IKEA contributes with Democratic Design principles, the latest methods, and tools as well as workshops and tutoring to train product development processes in real-time, thus giving the students a hands-on opportunity to corporate projects and providing them the opportunity to implement knowledge and practices for IKEA’s goal to create a better everyday life for the many people.
The uniqueness of the program is that it has students from three different faculties - Business, Engineering, and Design and brings together a diversity of competencies, backgrounds, and experiences to enable the innovation process in all its complexity to address the challenges that humankind is facing regarding environmental and social issues. Eventually, the program deepens students’ understanding not only of knowledge and skills that influence the innovation process but also trains them in the professional way of working in a context where many fields of knowledge and practices are interacting.
Program of three disciplines
The program is offered in three different disciplines, business, engineering, and design. Information on the business discipline. Information on the engineering discipline.