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Master of Product Design Enterprise

This course is available at the following Otago Polytechnic campuses:

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Dunedin - Coastal Otago

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Central Otago

The Master of Product Design Enterprise is an industry-leading postgraduate degree, providing an entrepreneurial and innovative approach that supports design-led product and service enterprise.

The programme is aimed at students with both a degree in design and some years of experience in industry. It provides high-level, high-quality input to both industry and students with a drive to develop new relevant products and services within a design-led enterprise environment.

Significant periods of learning and research are based in the industry workplace. Each course is individually tailored to the students needs.

Courses in this programme

Subjects

- Design, creativity and strategy
- Enterprise, business and marketing
- Production, operations and manufacture

Job Opportunities

This master's degree will give you an industry-leading and highly relevant qualification, with proven design, business and production experience. As such, you'll have the skills to access careers within industries that require design and design-led strategy expertise in situations such as:
- design, redesign or modification of a product or service
- design-led innovation and implementation of new technologies in products
- multi-disciplinary design team leadership
- entrepreneurial new product/service venture
- engaging in design-driven entrepreneurial venture
- design-led advocacy, strategic design implementation and education roles

English Language Requirement: Students will need to have an overall band score (Academic) of 7.0 IELTS (with no individual score less than 6.5), or recognised equivalent.

Entry requirements include - Bachelor's degree in Design (multi-disciplinary), or equivalent AND a minimum of 9 months of industry, design or business experience.

 

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