Convert your creative ideas into business success and use the power of design and innovation in a corporate context. This MA Design Management will teach you how to understand, manage and oversee the process of design in all aspects of business. Providing you with a huge range of career opportunities.
This course will suit a graduate or professional who wants to excel in design and business.
Throughout this design management master's course you鈥檒l develop essential workplace skills and put your learning into practice. You鈥檒l take part in mini projects, including auditing the user experience of digital services and looking at brand design for a range of organisations. In a sophisticated group marketing simulation workshop you鈥檒l invent a company, design and sell a product, then use customer and market feedback to review and develop this.
Explore our specialist arts campus:
One of only a few specialist art schools in the Russell Group, you鈥檒l be inspired to create in our purpose built studios and workshops and learn with expert creative practitioners at Winchester School of Art (WSA), part our University of Southampton community and just one hour from London. You鈥檒l have industry exposure through guest lectures, work on live project briefs, and explore work internships where graduates have gone on to set up their own design labels or work at prestigious brands across the globe including Selfridges, Saatchi & Saatchi, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, ASOS, Nike and Apple.
Assessment methods (Outcome qualification level)
Assessment methods vary by module, but may include presentations and written assignments, such as project reports and critical analyses. Your dissertation will also contribute to your final mark.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
September 2025
Winchester School of Art
Park Avenue,
Winchester,
Hampshire,
SO23 8DL, SOUTHERN ENGLAND, England
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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