MBA In Design Strategy
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Come help define the intersection of design and business.
The MBA in Design Strategy equips students to lead organizations from the unique perspective of design thinking. By uniting the studies of design, finance, strategy, and sustainability, we provide the tools to manage in today's interconnected markets with a vision of business as sustainable, meaningful, ethical, profitable, and truly innovative.
Our ground-breaking full-time MBA program helps next generation leaders imagine and create a better world through innovative change. Our program's flexible structure (five once-a-month, four-day weekends of instruction and interaction each semester), allows students to commute from outside the Bay Area or juggle other commitments, combining in-person instruction with online and other telecommunication tools to facilitate effective learning.
Help create socially responsive, culturally relevant, and technologically appropriate lasting value.
Our integrated curriculum integrates themes of design-led innovation, sustainability, meaningful experiences, and entrepreneurship with business-related domains of leadership, finance, economics, operations, and marketing. Every course connects these themes and domains so that students develop deep, practical experience.
Each semester, students develop individual and team solutions to a variety of economic and social challenges using design techniques, such as customer-centered research, prototyping, critique, and iteration, as well as business metrics. Solutions are evaluated according to how well they meet user and market needs as well as their clear organizational value. Sponsored projects allow students to work with leading businesses. In addition, students may take advantage of graduate-wide electives.
The program has dedicated studio space on CCA's San Francisco campus, the location of its nationally recognized design programs. Also available are model-making facilities, metal- and woodshops, a laser cutter, a 3D prototyping machine, paint booths, and studios for editing digital media, film, video, and sound. The program sits in the heart of one of the world's most fertile innovation centers with close ties and partnerships to companies and consultancies in the region.
The MBA in Design Strategy at CCA is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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An important note: Due to its low residency format, CCA is currently unable to issue I-20s to international MBA in Design Strategy Program applicants. However, if you are an international student who currently resides in the United States on an H visa (employer-sponsored), you will be eligible to enroll.
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Contact Us
For specific questions about the Design MBA program, please contact us at designmba@cca.edu.