The MFA Design program is an open site for investigation, hands-on making, and speculative design thinking. You’ll explore new frontiers of design with cutting-edge tools and traditional craft-based techniques. With a focus on graphic design, industrial design, and interaction design, you’ll create working prototypes and models that use materials in new ways. This three-year course of study is ideal for students who want to shift careers into a design discipline, where applicants often hold an undergraduate degree in an unrelated or peripheral field.Our students have many unique opportunities to connect the critical design culture they experience in our graduate program to the needs of Bay Area companies. Alumni successfully find work in the tech industry for companies including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, and IDEO.