Thursday February 25, 2010

D-Schools: The Global List

D-Schools Special Report

Innovation is a tough thing to measure. To compile this list, BusinessWeek turned to an international panel of 22 expert design and brand consultants and academics from both business and design schools. We also tapped six forward-thinking companies with expertise in design or innovation strategy. We asked all to recommend interdisciplinary design and business programs with curricula they respect and graduates they prefer to hire.

Then we conducted interviews with professors, students, and alumni from the recommended colleges, looking for design programs that incorporate business strategy—and business programs that teach design as a tool for strategic advantage. Here's a sortable list of the 60 schools that made the grade.

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School	City	State/ Province	Country	Specialization	Undergrad Grad/Both	Students	Academic Partnerships	Business Partnerships

Arizona State University, College of Design	Tempe	Ariz.	U.S.	Design, Engineering, and Business	B	2,480	Arizona State's Colleges of Engineering and Business	Intel and Herman Miller sponsor class projects.
Art Center College of Design	Pasadena	Calif.	U.S.	Design	B	1,400	INSEAD (France), ESADE (Spain)	GE, Nike, Honda, and Whirlpool sponsor class projects.
Babson College*	Babson Park	Mass.	U.S.	Business	B	3,300	Olin College of Engineering, RISD (new this year)	OXO—Babson students designed its salad spinner.
Bainbridge Graduate Institute*	Bainbridge Island	Wash.	U.S.	Business	G	140	NONE
California College of the Arts	San Francisco	Calif.	U.S.	Art and Design	B	1,660	UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Köln International School of Design (Germany)	Project sponsors include Gaia & Gino, Pantech, Tupperware, Simpson Strong-Tie, Samsung, IDEO, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Timbuk2.
Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh	Pa.	U.S.	Art and Design	B	200	NONE	Course sponsors include Heinz, Alcoa, Microsoft, Motorola, and GM. Carnegie Mellon is also a recurrent partner in Microsoft's annual design challenge.
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design	London		England	Art and Design	B	3,789	Member of University of the Arts, London. Cross-registration opportunities with five other art schools in the university	Course project sponsors have included GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, and Tetley.
Cleveland Institute of Art	Cleveland	Ohio	U.S.	Art and Design	B	500	Case Western Weatherhead School of Management	Fisher-Price is a course sponsor. Rubbermaid contracts consulting work to CIA.
College for Creative Studies	Detroit	Mich.	U.S.	Art and Design	U	1,300	University of Michigan, Strate Collège (France), Monash University (Australia. CCS is also part of GM's international consortium	Students have done sponsored work for Michelin, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Fiat, Ferrari, Leo Burnett, and Bayer.
Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering*	Hanover	N.H.	U.S.	Engineering	B	305	Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth Medical School	Course sponsors include Mascoma.
Delft University of Technology	Delft		The Netherlands	Design	B	1,800	Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea), Illinois Institute of Technology, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)	Does client work for Philips and P&G.
Design Academy Eindhoven	Eindhoven		The Netherlands	Design	B	700	RCA, (United Kingdom), UIAH (Finland), ECAL (Switzerland), ENSCI (France) RISD, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands)	Professors and students have done project work for Unilever, Sara Lee, and Heinz.
Domus Academy	Milan		Italy	Design	G	200	Bocconi School of Management (Italy)	The academy does consulting work for Nike, Samsung, and Hyundai.
ENSCI Les Ateliers*	Paris		France	Design	B	215	EMUDE, Masters of European Design	Project sponsors include Electrolux, Legrand, and Kenwood.
ESDI Brasil*	Rio de Janeiro		Brazil	Design	B	220	University of Art & Design Helsinki (Finland), ENSCI Les Ateliers (France), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and Köln International School of Design (Germany)	Course project sponsors include Microsoft, Electrolux, and Motorola, which runs a lab on campus.
George Brown College*	Toronto	Ont.	Canada	Design	G	700	Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), DUOC (Chile), Veritas University (Costa Rica)	Course sponsors include Canada Mortgage Assn., government agencies, Magna.
Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta	Ga.	U.S.	Engineering	B	200	National Institute of Design, (India); Hong Kong Polytechnic University(China)	IBM co-sponsored a design conference. Media students do projects with Sony, Turner Broadcasting, and Disney.
Harvard Business School	Boston	Mass.	U.S.	Business	G	1,821	NONE	AIGA.
Hochschule Pforzheim*	Pforzheim		Germany	Design	B	75	RISD, UIAH (Finland), ENSCI Les Ateliers (France), NID (India), Hongik University (South Korea)	Course clients have included the former DaimlerChrysler.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong		China	Design	B	1,300	Köln Institute (Germany), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), UIAH (Finland)	Has done projects with Benetton and Bang & Olufsen.
Hongik University College of Design	Seoul		South Korea	Design	B	1,140	RCA (United Kingdom), RISD	Course sponsors include Nissan and GM.
Illinois Institute of Technology Institute of Design	Chicago	Ill.	U.S.	Design and Business	G	150	IIT's Stuart School of Business.	IIT has done consulting work for Kraft, Innovo, and P&G.
Indian Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Centre	Mumbai		India	Design	G	62	NONE	Member, International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
Köln International School of Design	Cologne		Germany	Design	B	460	Master of European Design, Shih Chien (Taiwan), Parsons, Musashino (Japan), CCA, Arizona State	Does projects for Nokia, Siemens, German Telecom, Motorola, and Coca-Cola.
KaosPilot International*	Aarhus		Denmark	Design and Business	B	135	Runs its own affiliate schools in Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands	Course clients have included Google, Apple, and Carlsberg.
Keio University*	Tokyo		Japan	Business and Engineering	B	4,876	Imperial College, London; University of Technology, (Germany), Xian Jiaotong, (China); Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France)	Nissan Motor and Yosuhara-cho Kouchi prefecture are course sponsors.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Daejeon		South Korea	Business and Engineering	B	526	Cumulus member. Also has its own partnerships with UIAH (Finland), Tshingua (China), Cheng Kung (Taiwan), CMU, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and IIT Industrial Design Centre (India)	Work with science park research institutes like ETRI (Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute), Bluecean, and Woongjin.
London College of Communication*	London		England	Art and Design	B	1,000	ECCA Enterprise Centre for the Creative Arts is open to students from all other London U. of the Arts colleges	Has done projects for Jordan Oil and EPR Architects.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	Mass.	U.S.	Business and Engineering	G	1,937	RISD, Tsinghua (China)	MIT has sponsored internships with Dell, Intel, and Alcoa and sponsored course work with Nokia.
Musashino Art University*	Tokyo		Japan	Art and Design	B	7,589	University of the Arts, London; KISD (Germany); Pratt; UIAH (Finland); Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy)	University cooperation projects with Toshiba, IKEA, Nissan, and Casio.
National Cheng Kung University*	Tainan		Taiwan	Design	B	1,400	KAIST (Korea), IIT, CMU, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), CCS, RCA (London), Monash (Australia), Musashino (Japan)	Has done projects with Johnson.
National Institute of Design	Ahmedabad		India	Design	B	650	ENSCI (France), RCA (London), Shenkar (Israel)	Has worked with Fiat, Autodesk, GM, and Whirlpool.
North Carolina State University College of Design*	Raleigh	N.C.	U.S.	Design	G	750	Business School at North Carolina State University; joint degree with IAE in France on Global Innovation Management and an exchange with the University of Prague (Czech Republic)	Course project sponsors include GlaxoSmithKline, Nortel, John Deere, IBM.
Northwestern University's Kellogg and McCormick Schools	Evanston	Ill.	U.S.	Business and Engineering	G	1,815	NONE	Executives from companies like SCJohnson, Abbott Labs, and Whirlpool are on the Kellogg and McCormick boards, helping develop curricula that match professional practice.
NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program	New York	N.Y.	U.S.	Arts	G	230	NONE
Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO)*	Oslo		Norway	Art and Design	B	150	Norwegian School of Management, member Cumulus network	Project work for Live Work and the Norwegian lottery company, Gjensidige.
Parsons The New School for Design	New York	N.Y.	U.S.	Art and Design	B	3,598	Columbia Business School, La Escuela de Disenso at Alto de Chavon (the Dominican Republic), Kanazawa International Design Institute (Japan), Central Academy of Fine Arts (China)	Project sponsors include Target, Kiehl's, and Samsung.
Polytechnic University of Milan	Milan		Italy	Design	B	38,000	Design Management Week is a conference open to MBAs from global schools to discuss design; also has partnerships with Harvard Business School, MIT, and Tongji University in China	Educational partnership with Ferrari.
Pratt Institute	Brooklyn	N.Y.	U.S.	Art and Design	B	4,762	Columbia medical school	Smart Design
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute*	Troy	N.Y.	U.S.	Engineering and Design	B	7,433	Technical University (Denmark)	RPI co-hosted a conference on design with IBM.
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)	Providence	R.I.	U.S.	Art and Design	B	2,258	MIT Sloan, Brown University Engineering, and, as of this year, Babson College	Nokia is a perennial project sponsor.
Rochester Institute of Technology	Rochester	N.Y.	U.S.	Design	B	700	Engineering and Computer Science Colleges at RIT, U. of Copenhagen (Denmark), Dessau Dept. of Design, Hochschule Anhalt (Germany)	Has done client projects for Xerox, IBM, Kodak.
Royal College of Art	London		England	Art and Design	G	861	Tsinghua University (China), launching a new joint program with Imperial College London's Engineering Faculty and Tanaka Business School	Project work for Unilever, P&G, and Sony.
San José State University, School of Art & Design*	San José	Calif.	U.S.	Art and Design	B	1,100	Founding partnerships with NID in India and ENSCI in France	Herman Miller, Legrand, Bell Sports.
Shih Chien University*	Taipei		Taiwan	Design	B	600	Exchange with Tsinghua University, (China), partnership with local business school, launching exchange with MIT in 2008	Has worked for Motorola.
Stanford University: Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, and the Product Design Engineering Program	Palo Alto	Calif.	U.S.	Design	B	300	Art, business, education, engineering, medicine, and social sciences at Stanford	Private, public, and NGOs.
Strate Collège*	Paris		France	Design	B	400	Cumulus member, exchange programs with over 20 schools worldwide, joint degree with engineering school Ecole des Mines (France)	Course sponsors include Hyundai, Renault, GM.
Tongji University	Shanghai		China	Art and Design	B	529	Cumulus member, partnerships with Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy), UIAH (Finland)	Does consulting for Nissan, Volkswagen, and Decathlon.
Tsinghua University	Beijing		China	Art and Design	B	1,530	KAIST (Korea), RCA (United Kingdom), IIT	NONE
U. of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art & Planning Program	Cincinnati	Ohio	U.S.	Design	B	2,300	Engineering and business at U. of Cincinnati	P&G sponsors a collaborative program on eco-design; sponsored projects with GE, General Mills, and Citigroup.
U. of Illinois, Chicago*	Chicago	Ill.	U.S.	Design	B	620	NONE	Motorola is sponsoring a new research center; also does contract work for Whirlpool, Rayco, and P&G.
U. of Michigan, Integrated Product Development Program	Ann Arbor	Mich.	U.S.	Business and Engineering	B	40	CCS Detroit	Tauber Institute
U. of Toronto, Rotman School of Management	Toronto	Ont.	Canada	Business	G	800	Ontario School of Art & Design	Course sponsors include Whirlpool, Medtronic, and Design Continuum.
U.C-Berkeley, Haas School of Business	Berkeley	Calif.	U.S.	Business	G	2,248	California College of the Arts; San José State University
UCLA Design Media Arts department*	Los Angeles	Calif.	U.S.	Design	B	209	NONE	Ogilvy & Mather sends a brand expert each year to co-teach the program's Brand Lab.
UMEA Institute of Design	Umea		Sweden	Design	B	224	MIT, University of Southern Denmark	Course project sponsors include Microsoft, Palm, Nokia, Ericsson, and Volvo.
University of Art and Design Helsinki	Helsinki		Finland	Art and Design	G	1,700	Founding an Innovation University with the local business school and technology school; e-pedagogy program with other European schools, member Cumulus and Erasmus	Does client work for Finnish companies like Kone and Semamco.
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School	Oxford		England	Business	G	225	Royal College of Art London, Goldsmiths College (United Kingdom), Northumbria University (United Kingdom), London Business School	Has done projects for Disney and L'Oréal.
Virginia Commonwealth University Adcenter*	Richmond	Va.	U.S.	Design	G	182	NONE	Adcenter has done projects for Motorola, Napster, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Yahoo!
Zollverein School of Management and Design	Essen		Germany	Design and Business	G	46	Liaison partnership with six other schools, soon to be launching with University of Kansas	Has worked with 3M.

NOTE: * New to our list this year

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