• Bachelor of Design at York University is offered as 4 years teaching program.
  • It is an on-course, honours program offered on a full-time basis.
  • It is a comprehensive design program that offers students an intensive and professional education in intimate, student-centered learning environments.
  • York’s Bachelor of Design (BDes Specialized Honours) program recognizes that design is by nature an interdisciplinary endeavor.
  • York Design draws strength from its home in a robust research university, offering students exposure and collaborative opportunities in areas such as business, engineering, technology, health, and more broadly, the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
  • Students have to successfully complete the 120 credits for the course.
  • Through a comprehensive design curriculum, students may choose to focus their studies along with one of three pathways where all of which are augmented by design studies that consider history, futures, and professional practices of design. These pathways are:
    • Visual Communication
    • Information Design
    • Interaction Design
  • Design studio courses are kept very small to foster intimate, intensive learning.
  • The experiential educational opportunities include professional placement in an active design studio during the summer between years three and four.
  • Students get the opportunity to pursue a design study abroad for up to one full year. 
  • University provides the design fabrication lab which maintains industry standard output and production equipment for design students to make their ideas take form.
  • High-end photographic, audio, and visual equipment enables experimentation with a range of media formats. Design studio facilities are dedicated to design student use 24/7.
  • The department of Design, students actively explore and expand the boundaries of design in managing and communicating complex bodies of information for meaningful human experiences in the increasingly visual world.
  • The average salary of the program is up to 43,000 USD.