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Domus Academy is a private design school in Milan, the world’s capital of fashion and design. Domus Academy was founded in 1982 by eminent Italian designer family of Mazzocchi, who own the Editoriale Domus that publishes Domus and Quattroroute magazines in Italy. But since then, the management changed hands twice, first time in 2009 from the Mazzocchi Family to Laureate Education of Baltimore, Maryland, and again in 2018 to the British Galileo Global Education Group. Domus is one of the most visionary schools in Italy for post graduate studies in design. What makes it an outstanding school is its top rankings and awards and collaboration with internationally reputed brands. To top it all, the master’s degrees awarded by the Domus Academy are globally recognized.

• Opinion leaders and publications from across the world tout Domus Academy as a centre of excellence in the areas of design, fashion and architecture. Its top rankings across the years bears testimony to this claim. Some of its top rankings are
• The Business of Fashion Assessment 2019 awards Domus Academy Special Badges of Excellence
• The Business of Fashion ranked Domus Academy in the Top 10 Global Graduate Fashion Business Courses 2017 and in the Top 30 Global Fashion Schools 2017.
• Azure magazine ranked Domus Academy’s Master in Interaction Design and Master’s in Interior & Living Design as some of the top programs in their fields in the world 2017.
• The Business of Fashion ranked Domus Academy #2 for Learning Experience in its Top Global Fashion Schools of 2016.
• Azure magazine featured Domus Academy among the 8 Top Interior Design Schools from around the world in 2016.
• Frame Publishers the producers of well-known magazines and books on design, architecture and fashion, publish their Masterclass Guide to top graduate schools in the world every year. They consistently ranked the Domus Academy in their top 30 schools every year from 2012 to 2015. This ranking was based on the quality of student projects, the distinguished careers of alumni, the calibre of faculty, and the recommendation of industry professionals.
• Domus magazine featured Domus Academy in its guide Europe’s Top 100 Schools of Architecture and Design in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
• BusinessWeek ranked Domus Academy as one of the 30 best design schools in the world in 2006, 2008, 2009 for its high-quality design-based courses that provide tools for business and business courses that teach design principles as strategies for achieving results. The jury which ranked Domus in this category comprised industry experts, programs in the areas of business and design and representatives from six innovative companies.
• Domus Academy participated in the Venice Biennale by organizing the project Art Experience by artist Olafur Eliasson in 2005.
• The project Agronica, created by Domus Academy and developed by faculty members Andrea Branzi, Dante Donegani, Anthony Petrillo, Claudia Raimondo and Tselila Ben David, was shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1995. It has since become a part of the Centre’s permanent collection.
• The Associazione Disegno Industriale [ADI], an industrial design association, awarded Domus Academy the important industry award the Compasso d’Oro in 19194.
Academics

Domus Academy was the first post-graduate design school in Italy to represent the Italian Design and Fashion. With its deep-rooted belief in the Italian culture and design, Domus Academy is entrenched into the processes of industrial creativity, aesthetic and consumption scenarios, space and time relations, public and private services. Yet, it has an international outlook, aimed at enriching, spreading, and updating the design culture, in tandem with its visionary projects.

It offers 12 Academic Master’s Programs and professional courses in Fashion and Busines, industrial design and design management. All programs are a combination of theory coursework and hands-on workshops in collaboration with different design studios and companies, like Moncler, Pomellato, Flos, Elica, Stone Island, Timberland, Pininfarina, KRIZIA, Procter & Gamble, YOOX, The Coca-Cola Company, Versace, BVLGARI, Wired, Vogue, MAGIS, CISCO, Salvatore Ferragamo, Technogym, KARTELL, Natuzzi, Italia Independent, GROM, Kickstarter, etc.

which add to the students’ professional experience. These collaborations provide the students with rich real-life experiences and a valuable professional network that helps them fulfil their ambition with regard to employment and also helps them in making their career choices. Domus programs are known to train and prepare their students in designing products for various industrial sectors on both local and worldwide scale. Career prospects for Domus Graduates are excellent; those with an entrepreneurial mindset can establish their own start-ups, whereas others who are academic oriented can enter into a research environment, and yet others just join design firms, architecture/design studios as employees.

The students of Domus Academy have participated and won prizes in several prestigious competitions, including the ITS Accessories contest, the Next Generation contest at Milan Fashion Week, Vogue Talents, Vogue’s Who Is on Next?, the Red Dot Award, the Samsung Young Design Award, and the Wallpaper* Design Awards.

Domus Academy can count on several representative and information offices around the world, whose aim is to support prospect students in their home region and native language.