<p>Parsons school of design offers a design and management major. What sort of jobs can I get after college with this?</p>
<p>Bachelor</a> of Business Administration in Design and Management-BBA</p>
<p>wait for good mama bear drae to recover. if I remember correctly, she knows someone who is doing it.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>My son’s girlfriend just started Parson’s with the plan to major in Design Management. It was a compromise between her and her parents who wanted her to get a degree in business. I can’t tell you much about it because all Parson’s students do a similar Foundation Year in drawing, 2d and 3d design before branching off into their majors. </p>
<p>What I can tell you about is the kinds of jobs other than designer that one can have at a design studio. My husband was a partner at a fairly large digital design studio. One of the partners was an entertainment lawyer and he was responsible for bringing in new business, contracts and day to day operations (staff, money management). He also worked with the producers on RFP’s (requests for proposals) and pitching clients on projects. Each job had a producer (like a film producer) who was responsible for setting the schedule, managing assets and client communication. They kept the projects moving forward. Then you had people who do Information Architecture. When you are creating large websites at least half of the work is structuring the flow of information. This is a field that you can actually major in in some places. Of course there are programmers but that wouldn’t be the focus in the Design Management program. </p>
<p>In other design fields like Fashion, Industrial and Interior Design and also at Advertising agencies you also need people doing all of this organizational work to bring projects to completion. I suppose this is why Parson’s thought it was a good idea to create this major. It makes a lot of sense to me to prepare people specifically for management at design companies. It looks like the program would give you a lot of exposure to real world practices and opportunities for internships. </p>
<p>If you have a goal to open your own studio some day in partnership with some other creatives this would be a good way to prepare yourself. But you have to be sure that you are ok not being the designer/art director. It doesn’t look like this program would really prepare you for that.</p>
<p>One more thing…people with these skills are also needed at large corporations who hire design firms. Imagine a large entertainment company, say Nickelodeon, and think about who they have working for them in their corporate offices. Or maybe a company like IBM wants to approach any renovation of their office spaces with an eye towards sustainability. they need someone on their end to create the vision and work with architects and designers to implement that vision. </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
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mama bear lives!</p>
<p>Thanks, it helped a lot. Sounds great but parsons is tuition is too expensive.</p>
<p>Max take a look at Northern Michigan university. Good prices and it has a design center, graphic design and lots of computer assisted design art work for those who create with bytes not brushes. Good price for a state 4 year college. Art and Desgn center on campus is award winning new building.</p>
<p>We went to visit NMU in our college search, and while I am not familiar with the program, it is a very nice building. School is located in small town, lots of outside activities, especially in winter.</p>
<p>Redbug…I’m surprised you didn’t mention MCAD’s BS program here. I just checked out their website: [MCAD:</a> Bachelor of Science Degree](<a href=“http://www.mcad.edu/showPage.php?pageID=1081]MCAD:”>http://www.mcad.edu/showPage.php?pageID=1081)</p>
<p>It looks very interesting.</p>
<p>Yeah, I fell down on that one, didn’t I!! D loves the school, and I’m going to talk her into taking some of the management classes if she can.</p>