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Bridge the disciplines of design, management, innovation, and strategy, and shape the future of sustainable business. Experience an executive education more focused than an MBA on the needs of leaders transforming creative industries. 
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Type
Graduate, MPS
Start Term
Fall Only
Credits
42
Duration
5 Semesters
Courses
Plan of Study
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Align Design Strategy: Innovation and Leadership

Climate change disrupts markets, societies, supply chains, profitability, and planetary systems. Social inequity impacts social stability, customers, and communities. Both are threats to the viability of business enterprise. 

Strategic design aligned with business can create new solutions to the most pressing challenges. Are you ready to be part of that process?

A Business Degree for Design-Driven Transformation

A group of students sit on a multicolored couch as they discuss. There is an orange coffee table in front of them with documents resting on top.

Join a community from around the world; a global network committed to using design to reimagine what is possible. 

Your fellow classmates bring experiences from across design disciplines, including industrial design, interior design, graphic design, fashion design, communications and information design, interactive media design, architecture, material science, and engineering.

Our program also welcomes those interested in leading creative enterprises who have backgrounds in business, communication, science, culinary arts, hospitality, events management, arts, and humanities. What you all have in common is the desire to start, lead, and manage organizations that will take on critical business challenges affecting our shared world.

Our Faculty: Innovators in Design Management

Our faculty are dedicated to developing your potential. They are also committed to leading the transition to sustainable practice in their work and their scholarship. 

  1. Xue Bai

    Assistant Chairperson; Visiting Associate Professor

    School of Art

    Creative Enterprise Leadership

  2. Mary McBride

    Chairperson

    School of Art

    Creative Enterprise Leadership

  3. Richard Green

    Professor

    School of Art

    Creative Enterprise Leadership

  4. Denise Tahara

    Adjunct Professor

    School of Art

    Creative Enterprise Leadership

  5. School of Art

    Creative Enterprise Leadership

Design Leadership: Shape Industries, Drive Change

Develop skills in design leadership, strategic thinking, and innovation that can enable you to manage your own career and lead with purpose. Pratt’s long history of design excellence assures that you’ll have access to a network of faculty dedicated to your success, industry leaders, and alumni willing to help and mentor. 

Learn how to apply or request more information.

Pratt Makes an Investment in You: Scholarships and Support

We offer generous scholarships and support for those who want to align design and sustainable economic development. 

All applicants are considered for merit scholarships during review of applications; a separate scholarship application is not required. For students in good academic standing (i.e., if the student maintains a minimum 3.0 GPA), merit scholarships are automatically renewed for each semester.

Other Financial Support

Support for research-based scholarly and/or creative projects that enhance students’ professional development—individually or through small student teams—are available through the Graduate Student Engagement Fund (GSEF).

Ready for More?

HERE’S HOW TO APPLYOUR CAMPUS & BEYOND
Join us at Pratt. Learn more about admissions requirements, plan your visit, talk to a counselor, and start your application. Take the next step.You’ll find yourself at home at Pratt. Learn more about our residence halls, student organizations, athletics, gallery exhibitions, events, the amazing City of New York and our Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhood communities. Check us out.

From the Catalog