Master of Arts - Design Leadership

The new MA Design Leadership at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) will equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to empower teams to create better products and services and more meaningful and sustainable experiences. In addition to practical design experience, you will acquire strategic thinking and effective communication skills and a responsible leadership style. Graduates work in a dynamically developing environment that requires exactly the skills they have acquired during their studies. They take on positions of responsibility in the traditional communications and creative industries, where they focus in particular on strategic and operational tasks. Some prepare themselves for independent work as freelancers or set up their own companies. Outside the traditional design professions, they work in interdisciplinary teams (and lead them) to support companies, organisations and institutions in the analysis, conception and implementation of strategic communication. For example as:

Career Path

Graduate career includes Design strategist, Design manager, Design operations manager, Design strategist user experience, Innovation designer, digital officer, Digital transformation officer, Service Design Lead, Design Thinking Facilitator, Sustainability Design Consultant, Human-Centered Design Specialist, Systems Design Analyst, Regenerative Business Leader, Design Researcher, Visual Strategy Consultant, AI-Enhanced Design Advisor.