Postgraduate Design courses

Why study Postgraduate Design?

The Postgraduate Design Programme enables students from a range of design backgrounds to work together on live industry briefs in order to build world-class portfolios.

What you will achieve:

  • Design for Sustainable Futures: confidence in contemporary design methods (UX, systems thinking, futures) and an understanding of how new and emerging technologies can nourish design thinking.
  • Project-Based Learning and Innovation: study in a studio-like environment that fosters creativity and enables you to build your own ideas.
  • Industry Partnerships: design ideas that will flourish through partnerships with leading creatives and designers, enabled by our world-renowned Industry Fellow, Andy Blood.
  • Participation: agility of learning - by studying at the weekend, you can work full-time, and get access to any of Media Design School’s undergraduate courses to top-up your skills for free*.

 

* subject to demand and spaces available.

Qualification Structure

Postgraduate Certificate — 60 credits

Two 30 credit components; total of 60 credits (NZQF Level 8)

15 weeks


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Postgraduate Diploma — 120 credits

Four 30 credit components; total of 120 credits (NZQF Level 8)

30 weeks.

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Masters — 180 credits

Two 30 credit components (NZQF Level 8), one 15 credit component and one 45 credit component (NZQF Level 9)

30 weeks.


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It’s incredible how much value I got from our theory classes, and some of that information I still use today, and not only in my work, but also in my day to day life too. The theory classes have helped to shape my view of the world and my way of thinking. I’m incredibly grateful for those classes.

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Postgraduate Design student work

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