Profile of the program: industrial design program was founded in 2001, is the Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology A class teaching and research institutions. The institute now has 10 full-time on-the-job teaching and research staff. With strong disciplinary advantages, it was successfully declared as the second batch of key construction majors in Ningbo in 2007.
The industrial design major is a 4-year undergraduate program with major courses including design foundation, creative thinking and expression, design practice, etc. The current enrollment scale is about 60 students per year. In the past three years, the employment rate of industrial design majors has reached more than 95%. Every year, there are students who pass the national postgraduate entrance examination and enter the industrial design majors of China Academy of Art, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, etc. in China and famous universities abroad, such as Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Art Center College of Design in the United States, etc.; industrial design students have won many awards in domestic and international competitions, and have won the gold and silver prizes of the Industrial Design Competition of Zhejiang Province, and the award of the Taiwan Kuangbao Design Competition, Germany red dot industrial design award and other awards; in the industry has a certain influence.
Industrial design is a creative design industry with great growth point, and it is also an industry that the state is vigorously supporting, and there is a strong prospect of social demand for talents in this specialty. After graduation, students of this major can work in enterprises and institutions, professional design companies, research institutes engaged in product innovation design, visual communication design, design management, as well as teaching and research work, a wide range of employment.