MDes (User Interaction and Experience Design) in Jain University

Additional Details for Jain University, Bangalore:

• The candidates should have passed a four-year graduate program in Electrical Engineering/ Civil Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/ Computer Science Engineering/ Electronic Engineering/ Applied Arts/ MBBS/ Fine Arts with a minimum aggregate of 50% and the candidate should have studied English as a compulsory subject
• The candidate should have secured a rank in CEED conducted by IDC of IIT Bombay or the candidate should have a scorecard of JET Design exam which is conducted by the Jain University [it is online exam]
• The candidates will be selected on the basis of portfolio screening and personal interview

Highlights of the Course:

Wide Range of Faculty Expertise -

• The expertise of the faculty ranges from Textile Technology, Automobile Design, Manufacturing, Textile Design, Graphic Design, Life Style Product Design [both hard and soft material], Product Design, Entrepreneurship to UI/ UX Design
• The faculty is academically qualified from Stanford, MSRSAS, NID, IITD, NIFT, IITG and many more

Opportunities to take part in numerous Choice Base Projects -

• The projects are built in the curriculum of the course itself
• There are about 4 to 6 choice based projects in the program
• The students will get opportunities to develop Portfolio with an extensive gamut of project-based learning

Work on Industry Sponsored Projects -

• The students will get opportunities to got industry-sponsored projects from the very start of their specialization 

Other Important Features -

• The specialization in User Interaction and Experience Design, by focus and framework, is India's first of its kind program
• The Dean of this field is the only design educator of the country who comes with an experience of leading the maximum number of Institution building projects in design namely BDCI Agartala, RDTDC Bangalore, CDI Srinagar and NID's R&D Campus Bangalore
• He has also lead the maximum number of Industry and Private Consultancy Projects in Design [about 34] in the fields of Electronic Products, Interface Design, Machine and Machine Tools, Railways, Defense Aerospace and many more
• The students also get facilities like a cafeteria, labs, wifi campus, library, hospital and medical facilities

Faculty:

• Dr S Ghosal [Dean of The D-School at Jain University] began his career in 1986 in the National Institute of Design [NID] and was a part of the Institute for over three decades till October 2015
• Till 2001, he was based out of the NID Main Campus which is at located Ahmedabad
• In 2002, Dr S Ghosal was transferred to the city of Bangalore in order to set up the R&D campus of NID which became fully functional in mid-2007 with 4 PG programs
• In 2010 he was a visiting professor at the OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
• In addition to being a member of the Faculty of Industrial Design at NID, Dr Ghosal has also lead a couple of major administrative positions like the Vice Chairman [Training] and Chairman [Outreach Programs] at NID
• He was also a member of NID's Policy Planning Committee from 2000 to 2008
• Coming to international exposure, he has had fellowships from The British Council, Government of Sweden, WHO, ICSID, Japan, Thailand and many more

Admission Procedure at Jain University, Bangalore: