Car Design Schools

Car Design Schools

List of the best automotive design schools. Courses and masters in automotive design updated for the courses 2021 and 2022. ​If we don't indicate the language, it is in English.

Here is a list of car design schools around the world that offer transportation design courses, as well as Master and Bachelor degrees. If you want to be a car designer, choose your car design school wisely considering location, price, internships, reputation, and faculty. ​The design schools that we name are mostly focused on automotive styling, that is, the creative phase of car design.

Online Design Schools

Driving - Online and free online transportation design course, both in Spanish and English. Price: Free Duration: 6 months

Luppo Design - The diploma is in Spanish, fully online. They are located in Mexico and Colombia. They also offer design consulting service​

Design Schools in Canada

Rubika (Canada)

• Bsc in Industrial Design, specialization in Automobile and Transports - Duration: Bsc + Specialization (4 years), Msc (5years)

Design Schools in Finland

Institute of Design and Fine Arts (Lahti)

• Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Product Design and Intelligent Mobility. Duration: 4 years -  Price: Education in Finland is free.

Design Schools in France

Creapole  (Paris)

• Bachelor in Transport and Mobility Design - Price: € 24.000 for the Bachelor (3 years) and € 38.100 for the Design Diploma (5 years) - Duration: 3 years for the Bachelor and 5 years for the Design Diploma, with 6 month-internship, Only in French

École Espera Sbarro  -  (Pontarlier) 

• Automotive Styling & Prototyping Course (Styliste Prototypiste spécialité automobile) - Price: 11,000€ - Duration: 10 months , Only in French

Rubika (Valenciennes)

• Bsc in Industrial Design, specialization in Automobile and Transports - Price: 33.000€ for the Bsc + Specialization, and 42.500€ for the Msc (5 years) - Duration: Bsc + Specialization (4 years), Msc (5years)

Strate, School of Design (Paris) 

• Master in Design in Transportation  - Price:  €11.500 -  € 9,900 € per year ( for 2 years, not for the membership) - Duration:   28-month program: 2 years [120 ETS] plus 6-month internship

Design Schools in Germany

Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) (HBK Braunschweig) (Braunschweig)

• Master’s degree in Transportation Design - Price: €500 to €800 per semester.  - Duration: 2 years, Only in German

Pforzheim School of Design - (Pforzheim) 

• Master in Transportation Design - Price: €160 / semester. For students from outside the EU:  Tuition fees of circa €1,500 - Duration: 18 months

Design Schools in England

Coventry University (Coventry)

• Automotive and Transport Design BA - Price: £9,250 (€10.800 approx.) per year for UK students, and £17,700 (€20.740) per year for international students. Duration: 3 years

Royal College of Art  (London)

• Master in Intelligent Mobility - Price:  British: £14,850 total cost (€17.450€ approx.), Overseas and EU: £34,850 (€40.800) - Duration: 15 month programme, full time. 240ECTS

Staffordshire University  (Staffordshire)

• BA(Hons) Industrial Design: Product & Transport BA - Price: UK and Channel Island students: £9,250 (€10.800) per year, International students £14,000 (€16.400) per year - Duration: 3 Years, full-time (360 ECTS)

Design Schools in India

DYP-DC (Pune)

• Bachelor in Automobile Design - Price: ₹5 Lakhs/Year (€5782 / year) -  Duration: 4 years, Full-Time
• Master in Automobile Design - Price: ₹7 Lakhs/Year (€8100 / year) - Duration: 2 years, Full-Time
• Postgraduate Diploma - Digital Modeling - Price: ₹2,58,750 Lakhs, (€ 3.000 approx) - Duration: 9 months, Full-Time

Rubika (Pune)

• Bsc in Industrial Design, specialization in Automobile and Transports . Duration: Bsc + Specialization (4 years), Msc (5years)

Karnavati University / UID (Gujarat)
Bachelor of Design in Automobile & Transportation Design - Price: For Indian national students, ₹18 Lakhs (€20.800) Duration: 4 years

MAEERs MIT (Pune) 

• Transportation Design -  Duration: 4 years -  ​Price: € 20.400 approx. (INR 17.65 Lakh)

Mantra Academy (Bangalore)  

• Automotive Design & Research Course - Duration: 9 months of study and optional Internship - Price: €3.810€ (3.29 lac + tax)
• Automotive Digital Sculpting Course  Duration: 9 months of study and 3 months Internship - Price: €3.360€ (2.9 lac + tax)

​National Institute of Design (NID) (Ahmedabad) 

• Master in Transportation & Automobile Design - Price: Indian National Students: ₹3.74 Lakhs/year  (€ 4.325/year). Also, optional ₹ 1 Lakh / year for Student activity fund.
  SAARC and African countries, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam:  ₹5.841 Lakhs/year (€ 6,750/year). Other international students: ₹12,841 Lakhs/year (€ 14,850/year)- Duration: 30 months (2.5 years)

UPES School of Design (Misraspatti)

• B.Des Specialization in Transportation & Mobility Design Price: Full education for Indian students: ₹17,18 Lakhs  (€19.900 approx)  Duration: 4 years

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Design Schools in Italy

IAAD - Istituto d'Arte Applicata e Design (Turin)

• 3 years course in Transportation design -  Price (Updated 10.2021): Full education cost 26.300€ ( Per year: 1200€  enrolment fee + €7.400 to €7.700 tuition fee).  Only for EU (European Union) students the payment solution in different installments requires the payment of extra administrative costs, which are respectively € 200 and € 350. Enrollment for IAAD Bologna requires an annual supplement of € 1,100 to cover the cost of a laptop computer supplied to students.  -  Duration: 3 years diploma 180 ECTS  -  Language: English/Italian

 

• Master in Transportation design - Price: N/A - Duration: Full-time course lasting 16 months - 120ECTS

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​IED (Turin)

• Master in Transportation Design - Price: €13.200 per year - Duration: 2 years

ISSAM Design Institute (Modena)

• Automotive Engineering - Duration: 3 years  -  Price: €10.800 ​ - Only in Italian
• Stylist Engineering - Duration: 3 years  - Price: €10.800 - Only in Italian

PoliDesign (Milan)

• ​Master in Transportation & Automobile Design - Duration: Approximately one year - Price: 15.500€

Politecnico di Milano (Milan)

• Master in Transportation & Automobile Design - Price: €15.500, Duration: 1 year

​SPD Scuola Politecnica di Design (Milan)

• Master in Transportation and Car Design - Price: € 16.800 for Non-EU citizens. € 15.300 for EU citizens. - Duration: 15 months  (There is also offered a one year course in Car Design Tools which costs €11.800)

Design Schools in Japan

Tokyo Communication Arts (Tokyo)

• ​Car Design - Duration: 3 years ( equivalent to a 4-year University Degree). Only in Japanese

Design Schools in Spain

Elisava  (Barcelona)

• Master's Degree in 3D Automotive and Product Digital Modelling - Price: €10.450 - Duration: 1 year (60 ECTS) - Only in Spanish

IED Istituto Europeo di Design (Barcelona)

• Master in Automotive Interior Design - Price: €12.600 -  Duration: 9 months 60ECTS. Only in Spanish

• Undergraduate Degree in Transportation Design (Título Superior en Diseño de Transporte) - Price: 11.700 euros/year in Spanish, 13.700 euros/year in English - Duration: 4 years (240 ECTS)
  Note: For Non-European students (13.000 euros/year in Spanish and 14.200 euros/year in English)

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Valencia)

• Master in Car Styling and Concept Design (Master en Styling y Diseño de Concepto en el Automóvil) - Price: € 7,200 to € 8,000 .- Duration: 1 year (62 ECTS) and another tutoring year. Only in Spanish.

Design Schools in Sweden

Umea Institute of Design (Umeå)

• MFA Transportation Design - Price: Full education cost: €54.470 (554 000 SEK) - Duration: 2 years full time, 120 ECTS.

Design Schools in USA

 Academy of Art University (San Francisco, California) 

• Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Industrial Design, Emphasis in Transportation Design -  Price: Estimated, $ 29,000 per academic year for US students and $ 30,500 (€ 26,500 approx) for international students. Duration: 4 years (8 semesters)

Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California)

• Degree in Transportation Design - Price: $23,667 (€ 20.225) for undergraduates, and $25,012 (€21.375) for graduate students. ​Duration: 14 weeks each and can be completed in a minimum of two years and eight months, if you attend for three terms a year.

CCS – College for Creative Studies (Detroit)

• Transportation Design program - Price: 46,170 USD (€39,460) - Duration: 4 years

Cleveland Institute of Art  -  (Cleveland, Ohio)

• Transportation Design - Price: (Waiting for a response from the University) Duration: 132 credits

Lawrence Technological University (Michigan)

• Bsc in Transportation Design - Price: $35,430 per academic year ( plus $1,200 for registration and fees) Duration: 4 years.

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Design Schools in Wales

Swansea College of Art - UWTSD (Wales)

• Master in Transportation Design - Price: From Wales: £7,500 (€8,780), Overseas: £15,000 (€17,570) - Duration: Full-time: 18 months, Part-time: 3 years.