The Master of Design (Intelligent Systems Design) (ISD) is a specialism with interdisciplinarity in its core, based on the integration of intelligent technologies, system theories, and innovative design approach, pulling together professional knowledge in the areas of design and STEM.

We are convinced that broad competence in innovation and design from a holistic perspective is needed to deal with future challenges. In the international Master's programme in Innovation and Design, you acquire specialist theoretical knowledge and practical skills for interacting in a global market. After your studies, you will be competitive in the labour market and prepared for doctoral studies.

The Master of Design (Innovative Business Design) (IBD) is an interdisciplinary specialism based on a design-centred entrepreneurship approach, applying integrative design thinking processes and methods to define business opportunities, configure resources, and manage projects with dynamic capability in an era of digital presumption and business uncertainty.

The Master of Design (Transitional Environments Design) aims to develop a high level of intellectual and practical mastery of the analysis and design of diverse rural and urban environments in the region, with broader implications for global contexts.

New for 2023. The Design Futures programme is designed to enable you to work across all the disciplines and beyond, to build future-shaping knowledge and skills, address the challenges we face, envision and then navigate towards a preferred future through design-led interventions. It will allow you to ask the ‘big questions’ about disruptive innovation, ethics for design, design resilience, shared values, future forecasting and design for safety.

This degree is for graduates who want to deepen their understanding and hands-on skills in both research-for-design and research-by-design as a way to define the future of the design profession.

The Research Master in Design focuses on the research practice specific to design. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it addresses and questions the positioning, questions and strategies of design research. The aim of this master's degree is to train designer-researchers capable of questioning the forms of contemporary life through the project and research in design.

The Master in Design of the University of Aveiro, now renewed (2nd cycle of training), aims to provide students with critical awareness and creative capacity, leading to a competent professional practice of Design.

The MArch Design Practice is a one-year programme that supports architects, designers, and spatial practitioners’ creative and critical engagement with the design of the built environment. With climate as a central focus, students will consider how reuse, materials, waste, and embodied carbon intersect with economics, politics, and identity to produce new opportunities for design practice in the just transition toward a fair and flourishing world. Students will critically engage with the planetary implications of construction and make bold, rigorous and informed design propositions through which a world otherwise can be built.

Computational Design or Facade Design? Select the focus area that best corresponds to your interests, and that you want to utilize to help shape the architecture of the future. State-of-the-art technology is the focus of our four-semester Master’s program in Integrated Design.

The Master in Strategic Design combines strategic design, systemic thinking, sustainability and applied social sciences to devise new approaches in the field of business and social innovation. You can take this master's degree in Barcelona or Madrid. The Master in Strategic Design combines design disciplines with other applied social sciences in response to the challenges of our time, enabling the ability to solve problems both in the field of business and in any type of organizations or communities.

The Master's Program in Transportation Design offers people with a great passion for cars the chance to engage strongly in car design techniques. It takes students to the core of the design world, making them learn about innovative thinking and how to approach, develop, and finalize the design of a car exterior and a car interior.

The MDes UIC addresses students who want to be part of an international program influenced by the tradition of the Swiss Graphic Design and the current academic perspective as well as the standards of the Institute Digital Communication Environments of the HGK Basel. Of special interest for students is the opportunity to graduate with an internationally accredited double degree: Master of Design (MDes) from the UIC and its Swiss equivalent, MAS in Graphic Design I, Iconicism and Graphic Design II, Mediality from the HGK Basel.

In a world marked by uncertainty and complexity, design plays a key role, BAU’s Master in Design Research guides students in understanding and questioning the present and encourage them to create transformative proposals with creativity and a critical spirit.

The Master's Program in Design Management combines the sensitivity and methodology of design with the market’s added value creation and management strategies to streamline an organization’s innovation processes.