Be a leader in design-led innovation

Our M.F.A. program in visual communication design prepares future design leaders to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration for strategizing positive changes and innovations within organizations, communities, and society.

Emphasizing people and their contexts, we teach you to harness the power of design to clarify, humanize, and energize complex issues at any scale through a creative problem-solving process.

You will focus on various forms of inquiry and actions involved in designing and be empowered to be a creative change agent.

Engage with different people, ideas, and perspectives

An ideal candidate for Herron's visual communication design graduate program is someone who wants to explore design processes for the role they can play in creating positive change in society.

We welcome professionals, practitioners, or recent graduates who:

• Offer a unique point of view to the program.
• Want a collaborative, immersive, and experiential graduate experience.
• Enjoy working with people of different disciplines and points of view.
• Bring experience from a relevant field, such as design, public health, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, business, engineering, environmental studies, philanthropy, or public affairs.