Design Management American University of Sharjah (AUS)

Overview

Using the skills of a project manager, designer, strategist, and user interface and experience designer, you can play an essential role in building and fostering creative cultures and maintaining a people-centered mindset, while driving organizations to meet their objectives through efficient and creative design.

A Design Management program from American University of Sharjah (AUS) offers you an array of exciting career opportunities, from working in a client service department within an organization as you oversee efficiently executed projects from concept to execution, to working with event managers to plan and promote events and productions. With your entrepreneurship skills, you can establish new design companies by formulating business plans, developing marketing strategies and establishing the right teams for the job, or set yourself up as a freelance design manager for individuals or organizations requiring specialist project management.

Get the best of both worlds

Through the Bachelor of Science in Design Management we offer you the unique opportunity to study design in the wider context of entrepreneurship and management. And as the premiere institution for design management in the region, we’ll give you the practical knowledge, the technical skills that you’ll need to launch an exciting career as a design manager. You will also be offered real-world experience through our professional internship program, to make sure you are workplace ready as soon as you graduate.

Your freshman experience will begin with a one-year foundations program, which all CAAD students must complete before advancing into their major field of study. Through this program, you will develop a basic practical and critical understanding of design principles.

To make sure you have the creative skills to do your job, we’ll give a working knowledge of design methodology and applications, image making, web design and visualizing, along with the chance to concentrate on one of these areas as part of your overall studies at CAAD.