The Industrial Product Design course at the University of Canterbury encourages students to develop a human-centric design approach with opportunities for conjoint study.

School: School of Product Design, University of Canterbury
Course: Industrial Product Design
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Course dates: 14 July 2025 (semester two), 16 February 2026 (semester one) and 13 July (semester two)
Application deadline: 12 December 2025 for a February 2026 start

From power tools to parachutes, footwear to furniture, backpacks to bikes or inhalers to interfaces. Here at UC, Industrial Product Design students use cutting-edge tools, techniques and materials, to take on the challenges of the present while preparing us for our future.

This innovation-driven degree will equip you for a modern and creative career path on an international basis, with our multi-disciplinary approach to design. You will develop a solid foundation of critical-thinking within a structured and universal design-process that is highly human-centric.

Throughout this journey you will learn essential design skills such as hands-on primary research-methods and analysis, problem-solving and ideation techniques, design-sketching tricks and computer-aided visualisation (CAD).

Students also develop a practical understanding of contemporary material science and manufacture, engineering, business, marketing and commercialisation.

This is a three-year degree program with the additional option for conjoint study, which is tailored to your own personal career ambitions.

Our staff are global and offer a diverse range of talent to help you design your future.

Maximise your opportunities in the creative field of industrial design, by learning how creative design, engineering, science, business and marketing can work together on a global market.

If you are looking for a course which offers you a multitude of design skills and techniques, encourages you to start your own business, or helps you shape your future in a direction you choose, then this could be the place for you.

Applications to this course have now closed.

Top image: Allbirds, Breathe by Emily Wang 2023

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