Design Management

University of Southampton
Postgraduate MA Full-time 1 Year Business and management studiesArtFashion, textiles, and jewelleryGraphic designProduct design

About this course

Convert your creative ideas into business success and use the power of design and innovation in a corporate context. This MA Design Management will teach you how to understand, manage and oversee the process of design in all aspects of business. Providing you with a huge range of career opportunities.

This course will suit a graduate or professional who wants to excel in design and business.

Throughout this design management master's course you’ll develop essential workplace skills and put your learning into practice. You’ll take part in mini projects, including auditing the user experience of digital services and looking at brand design for a range of organisations. In a sophisticated group marketing simulation workshop you’ll invent a company, design and sell a product, then use customer and market feedback to review and develop this.

Explore our specialist arts campus:

One of only a few specialist art schools in the Russell Group, you’ll be inspired to create in our purpose built studios and workshops and learn with expert creative practitioners at Winchester School of Art (WSA), part our University of Southampton community and just one hour from London. You’ll have industry exposure through guest lectures, work on live project briefs, and explore work internships where graduates have gone on to set up their own design labels or work at prestigious brands across the globe including Selfridges, Saatchi & Saatchi, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, ASOS, Nike and Apple.

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

2141 Web design professionals
1132 Marketing, sales and advertising directors
1150 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale
1123 Production managers and directors in mining and energy
2431 Management consultants and business analysts
1139 Functional managers and directors

Course Details

Qualification
MA
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Winchester
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
Business and management studies, Art, Fashion, textiles, and jewellery, Graphic design, Product design