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Department of Design


The goal of the Department of Design is the education of the student as a professional through teaching excellence, scholarship, research, and co-operative education. The department offers the following majors:

• Design and Merchandising
• Fashion Design
• Interior Design

A combination B.S. (Design & Merchandising)/MBA) is also available. In this dual degree program, students complete both the bachelor's degree and the Master of Business Administration degree in five years.

In preparing students for these professional pursuits, the curricula provide a visual foundation, a professional concentration, a liberal arts foundation, and co-operative education. There is an opportunity to study in London through the Drexel Study Abroad program for each major in the department.

The objectives of this comprehensive education are to enable students to work effectively by identifying, researching, and creatively solving problems within the practice of their chosen discipline and to make intellectual judgments in response to the continual cultural and aesthetic changes of society. Faculty members work collectively to endow students with a sense of pride and achievement in their work, thus enabling the students to review and renew their abilities on the threshold of their disciplines.

Students in the Department of Design and the Department of Media Arts study essentially the same subjects during the first three terms. This recognizes fundamental knowledge common to the disciplines, and it also provides opportunity for transfer, with advisement, between some majors at the end of the freshman year.