The Master of Science degree in Strategic Design and Management is awarded for completion of 36 credits. Transfer credits are not accepted. Students must maintain a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and fulfill all requirements in a timely manner.
The program features a progressively sequenced curriculum including theory and practice through studios and seminars, and involving three major components:
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Design techniques for researching the needs of people and organizations, and for developing and prototyping new ideas for products, services, and systems.
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Business tools for assessing market opportunities, modeling enterprises, and critically evaluating existing firms and industry sectors
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Theoretically informed discussions of challenges associated with contemporary economies, markets, and of ways that ethically grounded professional leadership can help students to constructively engage these challenges in the context of their careers
The curriculum is designed as an integrated and highly structured nine-credit-per-semester course of study. Students can complete the program on-campus in New York City, fully online, or through a combination of online and on-site courses. (For international
students, the possibility to combine on-site and online classes is limited by US immigration law, which requires full-time international students to take a minimum of six credits of on-site instruction in order to maintain their full-time status and
immigration privileges.)
For a complete listing of courses and course descriptions, visit the university course catalog.
The curriculum chart below reflects the course of study for students entering this program in fall 2021 or earlier.