设计学院嵌入一级研究机构UIC的心脏。我们的使命是创建富有活力的思想家/创造者，他们既可以创建单一的，高度解决的形式设计，又可以通过深入的研究和批判性思维来找到精心设计的解决方案。设计师不仅可以通过精心设计的对象，系统和交互作用，而且可以通过为领导者推动社会，技术和环境创新提供解决方案来解决当今社会面临的大规模问题，从而塑造未来。
The School of Design is embedded within the heart of UIC, a Tier-1 research institution. Our mission is to create dynamic thinkers/makers who, while able to create the singular, highly resolved formal design, arrive at their well-crafted considered solutions through a process of deep research and critical thinking. Designers will shape the future not only through well-designed objects, systems and interactions, but by their ability to offer solutions to large-scale problems facing society today as the leaders driving social, technological, and environmental innovation.