MA in Advanced Product Design
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Admission
About 10 students are admitted to the programme every year. Admission is based on the applicants qualifications verified in documentation, portfolio and interview - in person or by telephone. In addition to this, two exchange students may also be accepted for one or two semesters.
Programme Pre-requisites
The entry qualifications are a Bachelor's degree in the field of Industrial Design or an equivalent creative education like Architecture, Engineering Design or similar. The admission process is primarily based on a portfolio selection.
Students are required to show a high level of English proficiency (equivalent to English B from Swedish Upper Secondary School). Read More
Specific Portfolio Requirements
We look at student talents who dares to question the present and who has the potential to create the future. We accept applicants based on a visual portfolio and expect to receive a printed hard copy of the applicant's portfolio in colour, containing a representative selection of original works that visually displays, as well as textually communicates, the applicant's present capabilities and skill level in industrial design. If some of the works are either group work or made during internship or working as a professional, please clarify this in the portfolio.
If submission of digital material is absolutely required, please include a website address where the digital work can be viewed (CDs or similar will not be opened).
We mainly look at:
• Sketching as a visualization and ideation tool
• 2D and 3D software skills
• Experience of building physical mock-ups and presentation models
• Understanding of industrial production and technology in general
• Examples of problem identification and solving
• Creative and innovative thinking
• Design and form language
• Experience with individual and group work
• Overall attitude and approach to industrial design
• "Factor X" (What makes you special!)
We prefer and recommend our applicants to send portfolios in standard A4 size or similar.
(*) Important: The portfolio will not be returned to the applicant, so consider not investing too much in the printed portfolio you submit.
Tuition/Application Fees
Tuition and application fees is charged
for students outside the European Union.
Important Dates
February 15
Final day to apply.
Step 1. universityadmissions.se
Step 2. Deadline for portfolio and letter of motivation.
February 28
Final date to pay application fee or submit documentation of your citizenship status to confirm that you do not need to pay application or tuition fees.
Deadline for supporting documents (previous education) to arrive in Strömsund. (universityadmissions.se)
March 29
Notification of the selection results sent out via e-mail. (We do not give acceptance notice by phone.)
April 16
Last date for accepted students to reply to offer of study place.
April 19
Second notification of the selection results is sent to applicants on the reserve list.
Late applications
Please note that applications that reach UID after the deadline will only be considered if study places are still available on the course after the first round of application reviews. Should you wish to hand in a late application, please contact us.
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