20 Transportation Design Masters Degree Programs

The Specializing Master in Transportation & Automobile Design is a Master in Car Design of the Politecnico di Milano and it is a pathway to excellence for those who seek scientifically rigorous training to meet the professional challenges that automakers’ design departments are offering in this era of far-reaching change and radical innovation in the industry.

IAAD’s Department of Car Body Architecture was the first of its kind in Italy, founded in Turin in 1978. Since 2008, it has proudly carried the name of Andrea Pininfarina, symbolizing excellence and tradition in design education. Today, this department represents one of the pillars of the IAAD. Master in Transportation Design, combining heritage with innovation.

The Master in Transportation and Car Design requires creative and technical skills, in order to combine engineering, ergonomics and marketing to develop innovative ideas for transportation. The program covers the entire design process, with study projects in collaboration with leading automotive companies, involving professional designers from top car brands.

The MFA in Transportation Design Programme is unique in its scope of interest, dealing with the whole transportation design field in cooperation with industry. Students are educated to have an ...

Anticipate the future of mobility, showcase your innovative solutions and design a 1:1 scale model in the capital of car design with the Master Course in Transportation Design in Turin

The Master in Yacht Design of the Politecnico of Milan provides students with the tools needed to manage the design and construction process of both a sailing boat and a motorboat, from the design brief to defining the general plans, to the hydrostatic and hydrodynamic calculations to the interior fittings, of the roof and on-board equipment, to shipyard production and checking the final phases.

The Curriculum in High-Performance Car Design (HPCD) is part of the Master’s Degree Course in Advanced Automotive Engineering (AAE) and it aims to train professionals able to design high-performance road vehicles, with strong skills in vehicle design, dynamics, and NVH, aerodynamics, and electronics.

The Master in Yacht Design offers the ideal educational path to become a Yacht Designer

The Curriculum in Racing Car Design (RCD) is part of the Master’s Degree Course in Advanced Automotive Engineering (AAE) and it provides a high level of training on the dynamics of the vehicle and on the most innovative materials related to the design of racing cars.

We train strategically-minded design professionals. Using a proactive entrepreneurial mindset they will be able to develop and implement projects to shape an inclusive and sustainable world for future generations.

This Master’s Degree in Railway Infrastructure Design, Construction and Maintenance. Specialty in Underground Urban Transport Infrastructures program is a compendium of the railway system as a whole. It provides knowledge about the entire life cycle of the railway system, from its initial project phases, through its construction process to its subsequent maintenance. It also clearly reflects the technological evolution in the railway field, the existing regulations, and the modern means of railway maintenance.

The second cycle of the specialisation in Transport Engineering aims to provide a solid and comprehensive training in the conception, design, and operation of transport infrastructures, namely road, rail, air, and maritime.

The Intelligent Mobility MA programme builds on the rich history of vehicle design at the RCA, and places this within the context of a number of emerging social, cultural and technical changes. These include the shift to autonomous systems, renewable power, demographic changes and the increasing synthesis between man and machine. The programme defines and describes a paradigm shift which brings together existing fields with a design-led approach that addresses both physical and virtual aspects of the mobility space as an integrated whole.

The Intelligent Mobility research programme explores novel vehicle types, services, and integrated city solutions. Building on the RCA’s world-leading Intelligent Mobility MA programme, the Intelligent Mobility MPhil/PhD programme promotes critical and thoughtful research and design in the development of future mobility.

This master's degree focused on "Smart Mobility" aims to provide the student with the necessary tools to be able to design, develop, implement or simply analyze policies, initiatives and actions that aim to promote the mobility of citizens and goods. Smart mobility refers mainly to the mobility of cities and aims to facilitate the mobility of all possible users and all types, on foot, by bicycle, in private transport and public transport.