Overview

Strategic Design offered at Kyushu University  aims to develop human resources who can grasp, conceive, and implement strategies related to the social implementation and business of design, evaluate and analyze these strategies, and construct methodologies for entrepreneurship and practice. Students can acquire design management skills in companies and organizations, and construct design strategies for a future-oriented economic society. Therefore, students can not only learn design strategies that integrate business and entrepreneurship based on diverse design expertise in products, environments, and services but also take practical subjects in collaboration with QBS/QREC and cooperation with companies and local governments. In addition, students can receive a certificate by participating in the Creative Leadership Program in collaboration with QBS and QREC.

Career:

Graduates are expected to find employment in a variety of companies, such as manufacturers of home appliances, furniture, and toys; space, architecture, and urban planning-related companies; information and media-related companies; advertising agencies; trading and retail companies; infrastructure companies; and government agencies. They can also enter doctoral programs at graduate schools. After completing the second semester of the graduate program, they are expected to work as researchers in the companies' research institutes or educational research institutions such as universities.