Graduate Programs
The UIC School of Design offers a program that leads to two degrees: Master of Design in Graphic Design (MDes Graphic Design) and Master of Design in Industrial Design (MDes Industrial Design).
MDes Graphic Design
The UIC Master of Design in Graphic Design is a globally oriented program delivered in Chicago or in Basel, Switzerland. In both locations, the two-year program is focused on an independent master’s research project, which offers students the opportunity to identify and explore a topic of inquiry with the potential to contribute to broader disciplinary knowledge. Through project-oriented activities that foster analytical competence in research, writing, design history, and image theory, the curriculum is designed to deepen …
MDes Industrial Design
The School of Design is embedded within UIC, a Tier-1 research institution. Our mission is to create dynamic thinkers/makers who, while able to create singular, highly resolved formal design, arrive at their considered solutions through research and critical thinking. Designers will shape the future not only through well-designed objects, systems, and interactions, but by their ability to offer solutions to large-scale problems facing society as the leaders driving social, technological, and environmental innovation.
MDes Graphic Design Basel
The UIC/HGK International Master of Design (MDes Basel) is a collaborative initiative between two prestigious design schools situated within leading public research institutions: the Institute for Digital Communication Environments at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland (FHNW HGK) and the School of Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).