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M.A. in Industrial Design (Research)

Masters

Industrial

Design

The Master of Arts (Industrial Design) is a full-time graduate programme by research that serves to advance the study of design. Postgraduate research at NUS Division of Industrial Design embraces various areas of design research, across Creative Interaction Design, Design for Healthcare, Service Design, Design Management, and Value-Sensitive Design.
Students are assured to be immersed in their thesis/dissertation projects under the guidance of supervisors who are scholars and domain experts. They employ various modes of design research such as research-through-design that uses the design process and artifacts for intellectual inquiry and research-into-design that studies design as a phenomenon.
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Design and Engineering

Industrial Design

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Division of Industrial Design College of Design and Engineering National University of Singapore 8 Architecture Drive Singapore 117356

The Division of Industrial Design (DID) is the first university-level department in Singapore to offer degree programmes in Industrial Design. The BA (Hons), MDes, MA, and Ph.D. (ID) are highly selective programmes, where students are taught a potent combination of design thinking and innovation methods, with a clever mix of artistic, humanistic, technological, and business disciplines. Our graduates are enabled to take up highly valuable and versatile roles as creative designers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders of change.
DID is where innovations are pushed to the next level. Our vision is to make life better through design; to equip students with interdisciplinary skills and thinking processes required to find unmet needs, as well as solve complex problems involved when creating viable new products, experiences, interfaces, and environments. While based solidly on good functionality and form, our approach equips student designers to go beyond these basics of function and aesthetics, into the realm of extreme sensitivity towards human perception, behaviour, emotions, psychology, culture, and habits; so that the innovations from DID students are not just well-intended ideas to fix problems, but holistic solutions that people love to use, and businesses are eager to invest in.
Originally part of the Department of Architecture, our programme has built a stellar track record and gained independence in just 12 years. We are ranked 28th for the subject of art and design by QS World University Rankings by subject in 2021.

Scholarships

Commonwealth Scholarship

Commitment and Candidature

Commitment	Average Candidature	Maximum Candidature
Full Time	2 Years	3 Years

Target Audience

Bachelor’s degree candidates who seek to learn about design thinking and innovation methods, with a clever mix of artistic, humanistic, technological, and business disciplines such that they are enabled to take up highly valuable and versatile roles as creative designers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders of change.

General Admission Criteria

Criteria		Minimum Score
GPA		A relevant Bachelor's degree with honours at least Second Class Lower or its equivalent
English Proficiency Tests	TOEFL Internet-based	85 / 120
English Proficiency Tests	IELTS	6 / 9

A good TOEFL score or equivalent if the medium of instruction is not in English. For further information on the English Language requirement: please click here.

The TOEFL score or IELTS result is only valid for 2 years after the test and should be valid at the beginning of the application period for the designated MSc degree

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