The postgraduate studies in French

Joining the master's program taught in French in Nantes

The master's level degree is offered as an academic program in Nantes. Taught in French, this master's program allows you to choose from one of the following 5 application themes, each corresponding to one of the school's Design Labs: Care Design, City design, Digital Design, Food design or Media Design.

The master's program

The Bac +5 design diploma is structured around a 3-year undergraduate studies combining creativity, collaboration and collective emulation, and a 2-year master's program focusing on the strategic dimension of design (project management, diversification of learning contexts, transversality, in-depth study, etc.).

Postgraduate studies corresponds to the 4th and 5th years of the 'Bac +5' diploma. It offers in-depth training to prepare students to become expert and innovative designers.

Students are trained to have a “T-shaped” profile, with cross-disciplinary business expertise and a thematic and management approach. Over the course of 2 years, students deepen their professional expertise (graphic design, digital design, space design, product design), while at the same time delving deeper into the chosen Master's program theme (such as Care Design, City Design, Digital Design, Food Design or Media Design). By the end of their program, designers trained at L'École de design Nantes Atlantique will be specialists in a particular field, but also generalists who have broadened their field of expertise.

Students work on innovative projects and complex issues, in collaboration with industrial and institutional partners to explore new creative approaches.

The program emphasizes research, experimentation and innovation, encouraging students to propose design solutions that respond to contemporary issues and integrate a responsible and sustainable approach.

The Master's level degree program includes lectures, practical teaching, a final project supported by a dissertation, and a period of professionalization in a company through a long internship. To work on the final project, students are supported throughout the master's program by a network of experts including designers, industrialists, researchers and professionals.

Semester 7: Integration semester

For students joining the master's level degree program after 3 years of study in design in another higher education institution:

Students follow an integration semester in English at Le Studio France, specially dedicated to learning the working methods of L'École de design Nantes Atlantique.

For students who have completed their first 3 years of design studies at L'École de design Nantes Atlantique:

Students have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad, either on an academic exchange at a partner school or university, or on a 13 to 24-week internship with a company.

Semester 8: course modules and projects related to the program theme

The program is structured around projects, mainly carried out in collaboration with companies or institutions, workshops, lectures, conferences and professional meetings.

Students learn to:

Manage complex design projects
Deepen their knowledge of the economic, social and cultural aspects of the theme addressed in their program,
Build and apply a methodology
Support their final project, the subject of which they define themselves.

Courses:

Design and complexity project
Final project definition workshop
Prospective design project
Methodologies seminar
Innovation seminar
Intellectual property
Seminar specific to the program theme
Introductory research workshop
Professionalization
Preparation for a competitive examination
Preparation for final year project, complementary seminar
Thesis preparation workshop
TOEIC preparation (according to profile)

Optional courses:

Foreign language teaching
Double Diploma in Management and Business Administration offered in partnership with Nantes IAE. Find out more about our double degrees.

Semester 9: continuation and completion of final project

Students pursue and finalize their end-of-studies project, which synthesizes all the professional skills they have acquired. At the same time, they write a thesis on the project's theme.

This final project may be carried out in collaboration with a company and/or the research laboratories of a partner university. It must be linked to the master's level degree theme chosen by the student.

Supervision is provided in the form of workshops, under the direction of a referent designer, with the involvement of occasional guest lecturers.

Through the final-year project, students learn to :

Define and follow the various stages of project management, from drawing up specifications to completion.
Choose the methodological and technical tools best suited to project development.
Assert personal positioning and innovative strength.
Project the theme envisaged in the professional field of the chosen thematic program, in a dimension of social, economic and cultural reflection.

Courses:

Introduction to management
Introduction to law
Final project follow-up workshop
Thesis follow-up workshop
Professionalization
TOEIC preparation (depending on profile)
Preparation for a design competition

Optional courses:

Foreign language teaching
Double Diploma in Management and Business Administration offered in partnership with Nantes IAE. Find out more about our double degrees.

Semester 10: Professional integration internship

The curriculum includes an internship lasting a minimum of 16 weeks (up to a maximum of 6 months) with a company in France or abroad.

Depending on the student's professional project, this internship can also take place in a company the student wishes to set up, or in a research laboratory.

During this period, students work as junior designers and are responsible for all or part of a project. They are expected to demonstrate their ability to integrate into a team, manage a project and successfully complete each stage of its development.

This time spent on the job enables students to link their entire course of study with what will be their first professional experience.