DURATION: 4 YEARS

About Programme:

DYP University’s School of Design (DYPUSOD) is one of kind specialized school in Product Design and Graphic Design. We believe that design is creative thinking made structured, systemic, and visual, to solve real-world problems. In today’s dynamically changing and demanding job market, Design is a quintessential skill for any profession or business to keep itself resilient and relevant. Hence, the Design Thinking paradigm is emerging as a sine qua non for all the industries to be competitive through innovation and integration with ICT. DYPUSOD has converted this challenge into an opportunity. Through comprehensive market requirements analysis and interaction with professionals working on the industry frontiers, we've crafted our Design to train future Design Entrepreneurs .i.e. Designopreneures.

Being allied to DYPU, School of Architecture, Engineering, and Management along with their respective industry collaborations, we have created successful horizontal and vertical synergies to optimize the multidisciplinary learning possibilities and employment opportunities. This approach has given us the competitive edge over other design Programme offered throughout the region. While our Programme has a rigorous academic orientation, it efficiently accommodates curricular and extracurricular activities throughout the year without compromising pupil’s academic performance and contributes to their holistic personality development.

DYPUSOD’s courses have been developed for students, professionals, and entrepreneurs who seek to acquire fundamental knowledge along with Industry aligned technical and management skills in Product and Graphic design, taking into consideration the state of the art technologies and frontier innovations in the field. This has been augmented through the availability of salubrious campus environment, state of the art infrastructure, and highly qualified and experienced team of academicians and allied industry professionals. The students of our Bachelor’s in Design will have the opportunity to work in visual agencies (advertising, design) or companies of product design, graphic design, communication design, and interactive design, among others.

Programme Structure:

Choice based Credit Systems: 240 Credits

• Continuous Evaluation and assessment: Internal 60% and External 40% for each subject
• Electives: Design Electives and Professional Electives
• Series of Design Innovation Projects
• Series of Design Research Projects
• Design Industry internships
• Interdisciplinary Collaborative Design Project

Programme Objectives:

• To develop the knowledge, skills, creativity and innovation for design profession.
• Ensure the collaborative learning through the interaction with qualified and experienced academicians, industry practitioners and professionals.
• Competency Development programmes and Youth Leadership Programme are deigned to develop the personality, attitude and values.
• Provide opportunity for Certification* programmes in technical, management skills, upcoming areas.
• Experiential learning by providing winter and summer internship, live projects opportunities to work in visual agencies and design companies.
• Inculcate innovation, leadership, & entrepreneurial thinking.
• Academic delivery with the use of technology, workshops, seminars, visits, study tours, joint studios and webinars.

Programme Delivery:

• Classroom Learning: Theoretical lectures, interactive session, audio / video, digital classrooms & Parallel Studies
• Group based learning: Group Assignments & Presentations to learn collaborative skills
• Technical workshops, Industry-Academia Guest lecture
• Webinars for National and Global Exposure
• Live projects, group projects, winter projects and summer internship, Field visits
• Practice Lab for design practice, interior design, product design, graphic design, 3D visualizers, Graphic design, advertising, films, web banners and adverts, product configurators, posters (still and moving), historical re-constructions, e-books and magazines, architecture, video games, augmented reality, virtual reality, marketing and communications, infographics and many more
• Design advisory services such as digital training manuals, pathfinding, interfaces
• Education, training and research – as teachers or lecturers of design-related topics.

Programme Specialization/ Tracks Offered:

• Product Design
• Graphic Design
• Interior Design

Certifications* :

• The certification programmes shall be organized at various schools/ departments as per the branches or programmes, required for Technical and Professional Managerial skills with leading and reputed Industry, Professionals and Certifying organizations.
• Students can also pursue courses on online platforms such as a Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs*, Coursera*, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL*) etc.

Total Credits: 240

Intake : 60 Students

• Product Design : 20
• Graphic Design : 20
• Interior Design : 20

Eligibility:

1. The Candidate should be an Indian National.

2. Passed HSC or its equivalent examination with English as compulsory subjects, and obtained at least 45% marks (at least 40% marks, in case of Backward class categories and Persons with Disability candidates belonging to Maharashtra State only) in the above subjects taken together.

OR

Passed Diploma in Engineering and Technology and obtained at least 45% marks (at least 40% marks, in case of Backward class categories and Persons with Disability candidates belonging to Maharashtra State only),

AND

3. The Candidate with remarkable achievements in Co-Curricular & Extra-Curricular Activities and qualified in written test conducted at DYPU

OR

The Candidate should have qualified in UCEED/NID 2020

Selection Process:

Applicant has to appear and clear the DYPU Test that includes

• Written Test
• Personal Interview

Note: Candidates who have secured ranks in UCEED (for B.Des. Programme) can directly attend the portfolio and personal interview conducted by the D - School. If not, they have to undertake the DYPU Written Test conducted by the D - School to get qualified for the design Programmes.

Four Years at Campus:

• First and Second Year: Familiarizing with design thinking and acquiring skill sets for design and product
• Third Year: Focus on Application and Practice through projects
• Fourth Year: Industry internship and Project

Career Opportunities:

Few job profiles after graduation:

• Consumer Insights and Design Researcher
• Communication Designer
• Innovation Facilitator, Service Designer
• Design led start-ups.
• Pursue a Masters in Design in India or Abroad.
• Graphic Designer
• Design Managers