MA Design with Concentration in Design Management & Strategy at U Kansas: Fees 2026 Dates & Requirements

The MA program in Design Management at KU explores in depth the design function in business as an important integrative, and often interdisciplinary, area of work. The curriculum couples a rigorous, practical understanding of business with design’s natural capacity for handling diverse inputs, creative problem solving, and human-centered understanding. The program seeks both full-time and part-time students. It is developed for prospective students who already hold a design related baccalaureate degree and who are seeking specialized study in this management discipline. Program applicants should have at least two years of full-time professional work experience in design or in a design-related field.

The Master’s student in the Design Management concentration should evidence an advanced ability to problem solve, work on teams, manage processes, communicate clearly, and produce excellent goal directed outcomes. The holder of the Master’s degree will have completed at least 31 credit hours of coursework, a thesis that documents independent discovery and research, and will have passed an oral examination on the outcomes of that work.