Programme Overview
SDI offers three Master’s programmes – User Experience Design, Product Design and Communication Design. All of them are developed as pivot programmes through which the student can adapt and develop their career focus into evolving into a designer. At the same time, these programmes support students to specialise further in the same field if the student is already a user experience, or product, or communication designer. The curriculum provides for this double engagement for students depending upon their learning background and levels, through offering studio pathways, advanced university and school electives.
These programmes enable students to identify significant contemporary problems, inculcate critical thinking, critique conventional solutions, and challenge the status-quo in order to provide fresh ideas and solutions through team collaboration. There are dedicated studio spaces where students acquire key skills and explore new design theories and processes in order to ignite new ideas to complex problems in a holistic manner. The programmes are developed in consultation with high level industry experts and will be enriched through industry master classes and specialised inputs in studio. The final/ capstone semester can be taken as a self-directed design capstone or capstone in an internship format, all of which would deepen the knowledge, skills and experience of the student making them ready to make interventions as researcher, practitioner, and/or academic. These programmes are also designed for entrepreneurship and transdisciplinary mindset.
SPECIALISATIONS
Career Options after M.Des.
Graduates of our Masters Programmes can find jobs in the following interrelated fields. These include but are not limited to the following roles.
Why M.Des. at RV University?
- Highly qualified Faculty with tremendous academic and industry experience having qualifications from some of the best Design Schools of the world including NID, IDC (IIT Bombay) etc.
- High quality, affordable global design education
- World class infrastructure of studios, workshops, labs, prototyping and incubation facility
- Design pedagogy that facilitates integrative learning through a multidisciplinary process
- Experiential learning through short and long internships, programmes to discover & explore yourself, your neighbourhood and your country
- Self-assessment, where students assess their own work first and only then it is assessed by juries and expert faculty
- International collaborations, master classes
- Experienced and practicing faculty with excellent track record
- Incubation center through which students gain hands-on experience in innovation and entrepreneurship while being nurtured and encouraged by faculty and industry experts
- Locational advantage of studying in Bengaluru which is regarded as the Silicon Valley of India High quality, affordable global education and considered as one of the ‘Next Decade’s Fastest – Growing Cities’ by Forbes Magazine
M.Des. Admission Requirements and Important Dates
RVU does not discriminate based on ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, disability, age, or any factors other than academic matters. The University considers the past academic performance/ merit and equity as the guiding principles for admission in the various programmes of the University.
Indian & International Students

Eligibility
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Bachelor’s Degree in Design/ Engineering (Any stream)/ Architecture/ Interior Design: 10+2+4 years (minimum four-year Bachelor’s programme)
Note
- B.Plan. is equivalent to B.Arch.
- Four-year B.Sc. (Engg.) is equivalent to B.E./B.Tech.
- Professional Diploma in Design: 10+2+4 years (minimum four-year diploma programme).
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B.F.A./B.V.A. (4 Year professional programme with entry after 10+2)
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G.D. Arts (four-year program after one-year foundation) + 1 Year of work experience
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10 + 2 + 3 year Degree + 1 year work experience
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10 + 2 + 3 year Degree in any relevant stream (Applicable only for M.Des. in Communication Design)

Selection Criteria
Based on the performance in RVU Selection Process

Important Dates of RVU Selection Process
March 31st, 2021
How To Apply

2.
Portfolio Submission

3.
RVU Selection Process
Statement of Purpose (SoP)/ Portfolio + Personal Interview

4.
Offer Letter
Subject to fulfilment of eligibility and admission criteria

5.
Registration
Payment of fee
How To Apply

1.
Submission of Online Application
Apply Online to RVU on the prescribed application form (available in www.rvu.edu.in) by making an online payment of Rs.1,000.

2.
RV University Selection Process
Applicants will undergo RVU Selection Process depending on the course they have applied for and will be selected accordingly.

3.
Selection letter
Subject to fulfilment of eligibility and admission criteria, applicants shall be issued a selection letter.

4.
Programme Registration
Successful applicants in the above selection procedure shall be registered to the programme after receipt of registration fees as specified in the selection letter.

5.
Provisional Admission Letter
Upon completion of the selection procedure for M.Des. admissions, applicants shall be notified about the admission and a Provisional Admission Letter shall be issued.
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