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International Design Strategy
Le Studio France

Taught in English Nantes
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Informations

Degree: Diplôme de design Bac +5 : Postgraduate studies / Master's level degree

Prerequisites: 3 years of undergraduate studies in design

Admissions: On our application site (last admission session open until 30 August)

Modality

Location: Nantes

Teaching language: English

Start of the academic year for international students: 16 September 2024

Postgraduate studies / Master's level degree

An immersive experience into the reality of design in France

This program leads to the master’s level degree (Diplôme de design) certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education.

This program offers a great opportunity to carry out design projects in a multicultural context. It allows a good integration and a better approach of the methodology as taught at school through design practices.

Le Studio France welcomes students from various nationalities and design backgrounds. It encourages a cross-cultural approach to design and collaborations that will enhance the creativity of the students.

Program objectives

This program prepares adaptable and well-rounded design professionals that can address a wide range of design projects in a fast-changing world.

Students will learn how to manage a project from the definition of the design problem to the final presentation in front of a client, organize their work and their team efficiently, and thus hone their skills through inspiring design projects.

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Topics covered

Within this program, students work on projects linked to the 3 main topics: interculturality, international and interdisciplinarity.

They work in design management projects, linked to european partners or projects proposed by the school's Design Labs.

Examples of workshops:

  • The URBAN GREEN international workshop, dedicated to the design of spaces and products in a context of urban greening. This workshop was organised as part of a BIP (Blended Intensive Programme), a mobility scheme offered by the Erasmus+ programme, with students from L'École de design Nantes Atlantique, Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway) and the Design Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

  • The "Practical Oriented Systemic Design" workshop, launched in partnership with Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway, to gain a better understanding of systemic design. Find out more

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Curriculum
A unique two-year program

Design Management

Managing a project from the defi nition of the design problem to the fi nal presentation in front of a client, organizing your work and your team efficiently.

Students will have the opportunity to hone their skills through inspiring design projects. The goal is to prepare adaptable and well-rounded design professionals who can address a wide range of design projects in a fast-changing world.

An opportunity to update your skills

Part of the curriculum is composed of elective courses and projects that will enable students to customize courses to their needs. A variety of software courses, technical courses, soft skills development courses as well a design projects in diff erent areas of design (care design, city design, digital design, food design, media design) are offered.

The first step towards your professional life

With several projects carried out every year in close collaboration with companies or institutions as well as a 4- to 6-month internship during the second year, international design strategy program is aimed at building up experience of real work situations in the design field. A one-year long end of study project and thesis will also allow students to better define their identity and values as designers

    These programs, established over two years, are organized in four semesters validated by 30 ECTS each. Consult the course description

    Teaching program – 4th year

    Semester 7

    Students who are joining L’École de design Nantes Atlantique at postgraduate level benefit from an integration semester. The goal of this semester for students is to highlight and expand professional knowledge in the context of another culture.

    Courses:

    • Welcome, transcultural content & technical skills (78h)
    • Integration & skills development – creativity, methodology, marketing and projects (190h)
    • Optional courses (42h)

    Students who completed their undergraduate studies at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique spend this semester abroad, either in academic exchange or internship as a junior designer (13 weeks minimum).

    Semester 8

    During this semester, students learn how to manage complex design projects, deepen their knowledge of the economic, social and cultural aspects of the field covered in their program, build and apply a methodology and support their end-of-term project. studies, the subject of which they themselves define.

    Teaching are delivered in the form of projects in partnership with industry, workshops, lectures, conferences and professional meetings:

    • Intellectual property
    • Language teaching
    • Toeic preparation (according to profile)
    • Toeic exam (according to profile)
    • Methodologies
    • Innovation
    • Subject-specific
    • Research
    • Design and complexity project
    • Prospective Design
    • End-of-studies project Workshop
    • End-of-studies project complementary seminar
    • Dissertation preparation workshop
    • Professionalisation
    • Preparing for a competitive examination
    Teaching program – 5th year

    Semester 9

    Continuation and finalization of the end-of-studies project summarizing all the professional skills acquired. It can be conducted in collaboration with a company and / or research laboratory of a partner university. This personal end-of-studies project must be related to the program in which students are enrolled.

    Supervision is ensured in the form of workshops under the direction of a referent designer, to which punctual speakers are associated. Writing a thesis in the theme of the project.

    • Management
    • Law
    • Project workshop
    • Thesis follow-up
    • Professionalisation
    • TOEIC preparation (depending on profile)
    • Preparation for a competitive examination

    Semester 10

    The study program ends with a minimum of sixteen weeks (and a maximum of six months) internship within a company, in France or abroad.

    Trainees work as junior designers and support all or part of a project.

    The student must demonstrate his ability to integrate into a team, manage a project and develop all the sequences of the project for its smooth running. It allows the student to articulate all of his studies with what will be his first professional experience.

    Depending on the professional project of the student, this internship can also take place within a company that the student will create, or even within a research laboratory.

    Program taught in English

    Obtaining the master's level degree

    Le Diplôme de design Bac +5 is awarded by the final jury to students who have obtained:

    1. a minimum score of 800 points at the TOEIC test;
    2. a score greater than or equal to 10/20, which breaks down as follows:

    • for 40%, mark attributed to continuous monitoring,
    • for 60%, mark obtained at the final defense in September relating to the student's path (end-of-study project, internship and any other element chosen by the student).

    This course must be completed in its entirety to obtain certification and cannot be broken down into blocks. The course is taken as a whole and not in modules. Please contact us for information on bridges and equivalences.

    This Master's level degree program RNCP level 7 - RNCP36106 (published on 07-01-2022) is approved by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, which confers the grade of Master.

    Admission requirements
    Academic requirements

    This program is open to all applicants who either:


    • hold a Bachelor’s Degree in design,
    • have completed three years of undergraduate studies in design, equating to at least 180 ECTS credits

    You may apply before actually receiving the degree or having completed your undergraduate studies.
    However, admission will only take effect once the degree is obtained or the undergraduate credits have been validated.


    Applicants whose level we assess to be insufficient may be recommended to follow a semester or a full year in our 3rd Year of DN MADE / International Class before entering the master’s level degree program.

    Final admission will only take effect when the necessary visa is obtained, if applicable.




    Language requirements

    English

    If you are not a native English speaker, we ask that you provide proof of your English proficiency (minimum level of 700 points at the TOEIC test or equivalent).

    The Master’s level degree program being subject to the validation of 800 points in the TOEIC, you will be required to take the TOEIC exam during the course.

    French

    While not mandatory for the programs taught in English, a certain command of French language is recommended for daily life in France and integration purposes.

    How to apply?

    Programme subject to availability of places

    An additional admission session is open until 30 August 2024!

    Applications can only be made online via our application website:

    Apply

    Selection process

    1. Online application and payment of the application fees (€50);
    2. Uploading all the required documents for application;
    3. Application file review and interview if your application file is accepted;

    4. Publication of the admissions results at the end of each admission session.

    Tuition fees
    • French students and European Union students: €8,900 per year
    • 
Non-European Union students: €9,900 per year

    + CVEC (Student and campus life contribution): contribution set at just under €103
    CVEC website

    Scholarships

    The school itself does not offer any scholarship. However, according to your country of residence and your particular situation, different possibilities may be available to finance your studies in France: government grants, funding granted by international organizations and NGOs, private fellowships...

    Campus France has a scholarship search engine  which may help you identify a scholarship available in your situation (country of residence, degree being prepared etc.).

    Preparing your life in Nantes

    Start of the academic year for international students: 16 September 2024

    This date is provided for information purposes only and is subject to change.

    For more information to help you to prepare your arrival & life in Nantes Studying in Nantes

    Obtaining a visa for France

    Final admission will only take effect when the necessary visa is obtained, if applicable. For more information about the visa  to help you to prepare for your arrival in Nantes, consult the item Procedures for international students on the page Studying in Nantes

    Teaching staff

    Head of program
    Jérôme Héno

    Assistant Head of program
    Caroline Chirache

    Job prospects and further education
    International career prospects

    This program trains students to become global players who can converse fluently in English and possibly even local, French language, understanding the context of another country, and most of all, steep themselves in the ability to design for clients and employers from other cultures. It is a living experience that will change its participants, often opening up unexpected, exciting international career opportunities.

    Master’s level degree in design

    As all our postgraduate studies, this program leads to the Master’s level degree in design, certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and registered in the Registre National des Certifications Professionnelles (the French directory for vocational qualifications or RNCP) as a Level 7 Master’s level degree.


    Further education

    The Master’s level degree confers the "Grade de master", and you can pursue your education at a PhD level.

    Contact
    🇨🇳 Wenyue Xue, student in Le Studio France
    🇧🇷 Nilo Macena, student in Le Studio France
    🇲🇽 Lina Fuensanta Rodriguez, student in Le Studio France
    Yassine El Idrissi - Student in Le Studio France
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