EINA Design Degree
Official title offered by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Design at EINA is understood in a global sense. We group our teaching around a few disciplinary areas, which have a tradition in design: graphic design, space design and product design and other areas that are more specific to us, such as visual creation and design culture.
But although we have areas of organisation or specialisation, we invite and encourage our students to cross the borders of these disciplines and to freely create their own itineraries, and to design their own curriculum within these areas or mixing them in a totally open way so that each one can create their own future.
At all times the student is responsible for their own curriculum, having the option to choose from a large number of options and possibilities. Depending on the optional subjects chosen in 3rd and 4th year, students can opt for further specialisation through the five specialisations offered: Space Design / Graphic Design / Product Design / Visual Creation / Design Culture.
They can also choose not to specialise or to combine different specialisations, resulting in a designer with a more hybrid profile.
In the same way that a designer’s professional practice requires specialized skills in the aforementioned skills, it also requests generic designers who are able to work on different fields or coordinate specialized designers and establish interdisciplinary dynamics providing a wide range of criteria and approaches. The mechanism of EINA’s Design Degree facilitates this training and therefore allows curricular itineraries outside the listed mentions.
Upon completion of the Design Degree students should be able to:
- Show they have and understand concepts relating design with culture, visual arts, aesthetic trends and the both historical and avant-garde technological and business environments.
- Apply the knowledge acquired to suggest improvements and innovations in the communicative and physical environments based on design conceptualisation and formalisation and work as designers according to the pattern of behaviour proper to the professional environment of this discipline.
- Interpret relevant data that allows to identify usage and communication issues in the daily environment solvable with design, give opinions based on reasoned criteria about relevant social, scientific or ethnic topics that might affect them.
- Transmit their answers in a specialised verbal and visual language proper to design and master the necessary resources and codes to communicate them to the different agents involved (customers, manufacturers, salespeople and lay public.
- Develop a high level of autonomy that enables them to continue learning through advanced professional and research oriented training courses and master’s degrees.
When learning design, very different subjects, concepts and abilities converge, all of them originating from the visual expression and representation and from the technologic and scientific domains or the analytical thinking of the humanities. Design is a synthetic discipline and therefore, any student is eligible to start these studies, regardless of their high school subjects or if they come from other studies that enable them to access university.
However, certain skills and interests may facilitate the fulfilment of these studies. Amongst the most notable ones are the ability to observe, inclination towards innovation, good visual representation command, creativity and imagination, artistic sensibility, motivation to use new technological resources or strong technical abilities.
University pre-registration system
University pre-registration is a coordinated student distribution system that ensures equal conditions during access to the first year of the Design Degree.
University pre-registration can be made in the University access portal.
Admission channels and requirements
Baccalaureate students
Baccalaureate + University Entrance Exams (PAU) + university pre-registration.
International baccalaureate students
a) EU baccalaureate or bilateral agreement accredited by the National Distance Education University of Spain UNED+ university pre-registration. If they wish, they can submit for the specific University Entrance Exams (PAU) phase.
b) Officially approved non-EU baccalaureate: official approval of the baccalaureate + University Entrance Exams (PAU) + university pre-registration.
Students from Higher Level Training Cycles (CFGS) or equivalent
Higher Level Training Cycle (CFGS) or equivalent + university pre-registration. If they wish, they can submit for the specific University Entrance Exams (PAU) phase.
Students who change their uncompleted courses
Students who have started an official Spanish university degree course and have 30 or more credits recognised for the degree course for which they are applying for admission, in accordance with the stipulations of the regulations on the transfer and recognition of credits, and there are no subjects enrolled on and not passed three or more times in their academic record.
Admission due to change of foreign university course
Students who have studied on a university course abroad in full or in part and have not obtained official recognition or equivalence of level of their degree in Spain and have 30 or more credits recognised for the degree course for which they are applying for admission, in accordance with the stipulations of the regulations on the transfer and recognition of credits, and there are no subjects enrolled on and not passed three or more times in their academic record.
If the recognition of credits is between 1 and 29 credits, the student may apply for admission through the university pre-enrolment channel only for the degree course and the centre that is shown in the recognition ruling, and with a mark of 5.
University graduates
University pre-registration.
Over-25s
Admission exams for over-25s.
Over-45s
Admission exams for over-45s.
Accredited work experience
University admission for over-40s who can accredit work experience.
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Design is increasingly important in our society. Nowadays designers participate in the conception and development of any service or product. The work of professional designers is vital in the innovation processes, as it allows the inclusion of social and environmental values and provides the cultural and esthetic quality of the immediate surroundings.
The training in EINA’s Design Degree ensures the learning of the skills needed for professional practice in design, while focusing on its innovative nature, highlighting the entrepreneurial dimension of the job and ensuring the acquisition of meticulous and solid cultural knowledge.
The shaping of the studies provides the resources and knowledge to work in a wide range of professional fields and allows, at the same time, to start guiding the student’s interests and defining the specific fields of the several work interests.
The following are a few examples of the professional fields usually entered after gaining the Bachelor’s Degree in Design:
Visual Creation
Art direction, contemporary artistic practice, illustration, exhibition curatorship, criticism, history, artistic research and teaching. It is also a good access to future studies or positions with a high level of technification, such as photography, audiovisual creation, digital creation or animation.
Design Culture
Cultural management, patrimony, activity scheduling, education, curatorship, analysis and criticism in specialised press, research, design management, design consultancy, project manager, business management in design.
Space Design
Working spaces, commercial spaces, domestic spaces, exhibition spaces, lighting, scenography, fairs, TV sets, localization design.
Graphic Design
Graphic communication and identity for companies, institutions and products, editorial design, creative management, copywriting and naming, art direction in fields like publicity or photography, space applied graphs, packaging, typography creation, design of digital platforms and interactions, animation and motiongraphics, design for audiovisual media amongst others.
Product Design
Inhabited furniture, contract and work spaces, public furniture, products of great consumption, electronics and appliances, domestic equipment, tools, lighting, wearables & IoT, packaging, innovation management, product management, automotive sector and mobility, sports & well-being, health and well-being, children’s sector and toys.
Professional insertion
77% of EINA’s graduate students find employment in less than 3 months (Survey on Employability conducted by the University System Quality Agency in Catalonia in 2017)