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Course Overview

The postgraduate Design Management program prepares you for a career managing design strategic. The program also teaches the business skills necessary to manage a consultancy or corporate design division.

This postgraduate program in Design Management builds the skills needed to lead a multidisciplinary design team. Students will learn how to develop design strategies for products and services based on business objectives. This program teaches practical tools and interpersonal facilitative skills, as well as the business knowledge required to manage a consultancy or corporate design division.

Who should take this program:

  • Design professionals with a global perspective who want to become active partners in helping firms develop and grow through expanded participation in strategic management.
  • Designers looking to enhance their career opportunities in supervisory or management positions.
  • Designers seeking to integrate strategic design into the workplace.
  • Designers with an entrepreneurial spirit looking to start their own company.

Courses in design process and strategy, project management, finance, team management, design research, contracts, business planning, communications, and intellectual property protection complement a major studio course featuring real-world design projects. The courses cover the essential elements of a business strategy and how design contributes to the definition and realization of the strategy.

Learning Outcomes

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

  1. Manage multi-disciplinary design groups using practical working models of management systems.
  2. Analyze evolving market needs to identify design strategies required for the development of new products and services.
  3. Plan, implement and control project plans that are flexible and reflect the evolutionary environment of the design process.
  4. Enhance leadership skills, management skills and design expertise through the development of personal professional development strategies and plans.
  5. Establish working relationships with clients, customers and designers which maintain and strengthen their loyalty to their organization, as well as recognize design discipline protocols.
  6. Develop and implement business strategies to recruit clients and new business opportunities.
  7. Design and deliver sales presentations persuasively and accurately in oral, written, graphic and digital form.
  8. Formulate and present comprehensive business plans for design projects.
  9. Develop design strategies based on perceived value, competitive pressures, and corporate objectives.
  10. Evaluate results of design activities using criteria relating to application of best practices, costs and profits.

Entry Requirement 

English Language Requirements:

  DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE
PROGRAMS
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS AND FAST-TRACK/ BRIDGES** GBC DEGREE PROGRAMS*
George Brown English for Academic (EAP) Program Level 8 Level 9 Level 9
IELTS (Academic) 6.0, minimum 5.5 in each skill band 6.5, minimum 6.0 in each skill band 6.5, minimum 6.0 in each skill band
TOEFL 80 (online) minimum 20 in each skill band 88 (online) minimum 22 in each skill band 84 (online) minimum 21 in each skill band
MELAB 80 85 85
PTE (Academic) 54, overall minimum
50 in each skill band
60, overall minimum
55 in each skill band
60, overall minimum
55 in each skill band
CAEL 60 (overall) 70 overall (writing 60) 70 overall (writing 60)
Cambridge English Exams (B2 First, C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency) 169 or more (with no individual skill below 162) 176 or more (with no individual skill below 169) 176 or more (with no individual skill below 169)
George Brown Admissions Test (Mature applicants only) Available Available Not Available

Fees

Base Tuition Fee:
$14600
for 2 semesters (2020-2021 Programs)

$21900 for 3 semesters (2020-2021 Programs)

Incidental Fees (student ID student association membership etc): $2000


This information was accurate on : 10/04/2021
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