Graduate Certificate in Strategic Design

Rapidly advance your design career and gain a design qualification in as little as one semester, backed by immersive workshops, studios, and learning intensives.

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Graduate Diploma in Strategic Design

Elevate your design skills and career potential. Learn through immersive workshops, studios and real-world assignments to solve innovation problems for industry, government and communities.

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Master of Design (Strategic Design)

Be prepared to identify emerging opportunities, complex challenges, and drive forward-thinking solutions in this course that mirrors the complex nature of real-world projects.

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What is strategic design?

Strategic design allows you to translate your creative skills into strategic thinking and prudential decision making. This includes the consideration of ethical decision points when weighing up commercial and sustainability aspects, and developing intermediary skills to facilitate a mutually beneficial outcome for stakeholders while recognising competitors in the market.

Gain accreditation

Our graduates qualify for membership at the Design Institute of Australia (DIA), the professional body for Australian designers.

Members have exclusive access to a range of services, products and discounts to advance their careers.

Why study design?

Drive meaningful change

Learn to lead the creation of holistic and sustainable solutions that address complex challenges in a range of contexts including social services, health, advanced manufacturing and infrastructure.

Solve real-world problems

Our design courses are embedded with real-world briefs direct from industry. Our research addresses challenges at the intersection of design, technology, creativity, place, and health.

Blend classroom with career

Address the increasing market demand for people with strategic design capabilities to work as leaders. Take advantage of the many strong partnerships with local and international players including Adobe, BMW Group, and Brisbane City Council.

Expert teaching staff

Learn from teaching staff who are active in their fields and are ready to share their insights. QUT teaching staff research alongside major institutions and bring their wealth of knowledge back into the classroom.

Industry connections

Address real industry briefs and form valuable connections with local and international organisations.

Here are some of the organisations and brands our students regularly work with.

A university with real-world partnerships

Led by QUT Design Lab Chief Investigator Associate Professor Rafael Gomez, the BMW Group + QUT Design Academy is the School of Design’s R&D hub in future mobility with a mission to strengthen and expand the strategic partnership between BMW and QUT through three bespoke programs: student internships, applied research, and special projects.

The Academy focuses on innovation in future mobility by fostering design excellence and advancing cutting-edge transport and automotive technologies. We position design and creativity as an unparalleled and indispensable skillset the world’s best organisations use for strategic and sustainable outcomes.

Our experts

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Our research

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Associate Professor Rafael Gomez QUT Design Lab Chief Investigator

Our experts

Find a supervisor to undertake a research degree, an industry expert for project specific advice, or a potential partner or collaborator.

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Our research

Discover our research strengths, take the next step with our research degrees, or connect with our expertise, equipment and facilities.

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