DESIGN-BS - Design (BS)

The mission of the Design program (formerly Product Design) is to graduate designers who can synthesize technology, aesthetics, and business factors in service of human need. Students emerge with both a strong engineering depth and technical know-how, as well as creative, visual thinking abilities and a deeply human-centered orientation to problem-solving. Their ability to seamlessly integrate across the two “right brain / left brain” ways of thinking empowers them to make and build products, services, and experiences with transformative potential in service of people and planet.

Completion of this undergraduate engineering program in Design leads to the conferral of the Bachelor of Science in Design (DESIGN-BS). This degree prepares students for postgraduate study in design, careers as designers in public and private sector institutions, entrepreneurial endeavors, and perhaps most importantly, careers that do not yet exist. 

Learn more about the BS Design program:

• Visit our Design Program SoE Undergraduate Handbook Page for supplemental program information.

• Plan your way through the Design major by reviewing our current 4-year Plans.

• Visit our main undergraduate website at ugdesign.stanford.edu.

• Drop by our scheduled Office Hours to speak with any member of our advising team.

• Declare the Design major by reviewing process steps and submission details on our Design: Declaration Form.

• Check out our home at Stanford:

  • Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school).

  • School of Engineering.

For advising questions, please email ugdesign-advising@stanford.edu. This inbox is reviewed on a weekly cadence during the academic year.