IIT Institute of Design

Since its founding as the New Bauhaus in 1937, the IIT Institute of Design has grown into the largest graduate design program in the U.S., with over 150 students from around the world. The school offers professional Master of Design degrees in communication design, design planning, interaction, product design, systems design, and research; a dual Master of Design / MBA degree program with the IIT Stuart School of Business; and the Master of Design Methods, a nine-month executive program teaching how design methods can be the foundation for innovation in many fields and applications. The Institute of Design created the country’s first Ph.D. design program in 1991, helping pioneer the development of an international community of basic research in design methods.