Design

• Transcripts
• Recommendation Letters
• Academic Statement of Purpose
• Personal History Statement
• Visual Portfolio:
  • Industrial Design/Interaction Design applicants:
    • PDF portfolio of design projects, please include both final designs as well as design process.
    • Including a variety of design skills is helpful; research, sketching, mockups, prototypes, renderings, and models
    • Websites are accepted but PDF portfolios are preferred.
  • Interior Design applicants:
    • Upload a digital portfolio of recent work that communicates the scale, scope, and intent of each project.
    • Highlight the main visualization tool(s) used such as Sketchup, Revit, Enscape, Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc., and include any iterative process drawings related to the realization of the final solution.
    • Project work should represent experience participating in Interior Design projects.
    • Portfolio pages can be uploaded as a single pdf or as individual jpg images.
    • Image size (up to 5MB each), Video (up to 250MB each), and PDFs (up to 10MB each).
  • Visual Communication Design applicants:
    • VCD Design Portfolio (PDF)
    • Include up to 20 recent design projects.
    • Include both final designs as well as samples of the design process.
    • List the title, date, size, medium, and description of the projects.
    • Indicate if the project was designed by a team and explain your contributions in detail.
    • Do not upload videos. Instead, include hyperlinks to your videos online.
    • Provide a resume and hyperlink to your professional website (if available)
    • Compress your file. Optimize for the screen.
• Resume

• This program accepts the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars basic requirements as described on the English Proficiency Requirements page.

• Cumulative Grade Point Average from most recently conferred undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree:
  • 3.0 or equivalent (A=4.0)
• Minimum of 3 undergraduate hours in Western art or design history
• B.A. or B.F.A. in Interior Design (required for Interior Design only)
• Field of study: most applicants have majored in either art or design or have equivalent experience in an art or design field. All applicants are expected to present a professional-quality portfolio.

*Priority deadline for consideration for teaching assistantships. Final deadlines are July for international and August for domestic applicants. Only a limited number of admissions may be granted to applicants whose application is completed after the priority deadline.