Product Design Degree
(awarded on the completion of third year of study)
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In your product design bachelor's degree year, you will start studying in-depth details of product design. There will be subjects in project management, sustainable design, and marketing. And these will expand your knowledge on inventing new, out-of-the-box products people want and need. Assignments at this level will challenge your product design technical skills and encourage you to find your own answers through professional research. Sign up for your Bachelor's Degree in Product Design if you want to: |
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Learn to be your own boss with product design. In your bachelor's degree year, you will learn create business proposals with your design skills. There will be modules that teach you how to be an ideal team player and leader. And also business theories that equip you with knowledge you need to be manage your own design consultancy business. |
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Give your future employer a reason to offer you a higher salary. Product design bachelor degree graduates earn more because they are more knowledgeable on tools, materials, and the industry. So they require little to no training before starting the job. This saves the employer money, thus allowing you to command a higher starting salary. Your bachelor degree program in Raffles will teach you how to enhance your product design skills with business, human, and environmental factors. With this, you will have the skills to invent various objects that will benefit your clients, the public, and the environment. |
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Discover how to build on your design skills and work on areas that need improvement. By this stage, you would have had enough design skills to do execution-level product design. You have all the right skills in place, but you may find it hard to create something without direction. Want to get even better at designing impressive products? Here is where you learn how to develop your own design style to improve your productivity! Class projects will give you plenty of practice to learn about the properties of materials you are using. And will also increase your skills in using workshop tools to achieve professionally finished works. |
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Gain valuable design-related work experience before you graduate. In Raffles, every student who applied for the bachelor degree year will undergo an internship. And this will give you work experience through industrial attachment. During this time, you will be assigned to a mentor in a real design company. And from there, you will gain first-hand experience on how product design is applied. Your time spent there will allow you to boost your portfolio with commercially used product design work. And this will increase your credibility to future employers. With this experience, you will graduate with the confidence and skills to work as a professional product designer. |
By graduation, you will have the skills needed to take on almost any opportunity. You can choose to send out your résumés to top companies. Or you might want to build your skills in smaller design agencies. If you are feeling confident enough, you can even start up your own business. Take your classes seriously and your bachelor's degree from Raffles will be an asset that can secure your future career. |
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