Industrial Design

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 67 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 69.1 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 1, 2025
170 place StudyQA ranking:4318 Duration:4 years

Industrial designers serve the consumer through sensitive and innovative collaboration with art, science, engineering, anthropology, marketing, manufacturing, and ecology.

Industrial designers give form to virtually all mass-manufactured products in our culture. They seek opportunity and advantage through identifying and solving problems. Their creative contributions impact the utility, appearance, and value of our tools, toys, and environment. Their most innovative solutions lie at an intersection of what is knowable and what is possible.

The industrial design profession demands excellent organizational skills, an awareness of visual and tactile aesthetics, human behavior, human proportion, material, process, and the responsible appropriation of resources, during and after use. Designers express conceptual proposals through a combination of well-developed drawing, physical modeling, computer modeling, writing, and verbal skills.

Designers best serve the consumer through sensitive and innovative collaboration with art, science, engineering, anthropology, marketing, manufacturing, and ecology. Properly implemented, industrial design affords greater benefit, safety, and economy to all participants and recipients impacted by the product development cycle.

First Year
Industrial Design: Design Drawing (Adobe Tutorial corequisite)
Industrial Design: Product Design 1         
2D Foundations
3D Foundations
Art History
Sophomore
Industrial Design: Digital Solid Modeling (Rapid Prototyping corequisite)
Metal Foundry 1
Photography 1
Figure Drawing
Drawing 1
Art History
Junior
Industrial Design: Industry Practice (Portfolio Lab corequisite)
Industrial Design: Product Research/Process
VCD 1: Origins, concepts and processes of graphic design
VCD 2: History, application, and art of typography
Art History
Senior
Industrial Design: Collaborative Product Development
Industrial Design: BFA thesis: research and concept development
Industrial Design: BFA thesis: solution, production and installation
BFA Seminar
Art History 
  • A completed Common Application or Coalition Application AND the Notre Dame supplement
  • A completed 2017-2018 Certification of Finances plus financial documentation verifying the totals on the Certification of Finances
  • An official transcript or record of academic achievement in secondary school
  • Official results of the SAT or the ACT Assessment
  • Official results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), if applicable. We strongly recommend a score of 100 or higher on the Internet based TOEFL or a 7.5 or higher on IELTS
  • A letter of evaluation from a teacher, headmaster, or counselor
  • A $75 non-refundable application fee
  • A copy of your passport
  • A completed CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE if applying for need-based financial aid

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Prepare for the program requirements with English Online by the British Council.

  • ✔️ Flexible study schedule
  • ✔️ Experienced teachers
  • ✔️ Certificate upon completion

📘 Recommended for students with an IELTS level of 6.0 or below.

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Scholarships

  • Need-Based Financial Aid
  • Merit Scholarships
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