Nickname: proffie

Review: This list and these comments has just got more winged. I was planning taking my masters with the refference from a top notch magazine. But in its practice n reality i read through the comments lies a trail of displease in the sense of contradiction. Therefore, towards the commentators, I plead your assistance in recommending your own list of D-schools thats worth while. Bottom line I'll be really pissed if I go running around the world and investing my money in a instituion that is just not the creme de la creme.

Date reviewed: Jan 5, 2008 4:12 AM

Nickname: Gerrrg

Review: Apparently Architecture isn't design.

Date reviewed: Dec 20, 2007 12:56 AM

Nickname: Phyl from Philly

Review: This list was developed by biased, closed minded thinkers and was very disappointing. The reviewers included their own schools. We have the top national school right here in Philadelphia, Drexel University, that didn't even make the list (with co-ops offered at the Pentagon for goodnes sakes). Also, SCAD and Highpoint in NC are TOP notch programs that are not on the list.

Date reviewed: Oct 4, 2007 6:01 PM

Nickname: CamdenPete

Review: This list has not been compiled using any transparent methodology at all. What are the metrics? I notice that some of the panel have included their own schools. Smells all a bit fishy to most of us. It's a shame because it would be useful to have a means of measuring like for like, such as student's satisfaction with teaching, numbers of first class degrees, achievment, and sure, a little bit of peer review. Come on Business Week if we rated top performing companies using your methods for this list - you'd have your pants pulled down and your behind spanked!

Date reviewed: Mar 28, 2007 11:01 AM

Nickname: Linda

Review: I agree with Scott- especially seeing that Savannah College of Art and Design was left off the list, yet that school has some of the most creative minds and is considered the top art and design school in the US.

Date reviewed: Mar 6, 2007 1:13 AM

Nickname: Scott

Review: I'm interested to see that no schools from Australia were in the list. Is this because we live so far away and nobody is taking any notice of us? Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne has the National Institute of Design and which has very successful collaborations between engineering and business. A very successful Product Design Engineering program and business strategy embedded within every design program. Likewise design and creativeity embedded within the Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs.

Date reviewed: Jan 5, 2007 5:20 AM

Nickname: Brent

Review: What is the quality, prestige, ranking of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago? Their design/MBA masters degree program? If it is not a TOP program, companies will not hire its students.

Date reviewed: Nov 30, 2006 9:25 PM

Nickname: Scott Klinker

Review: I look forward to seeing the different D-school models that emerge. On the surface, it appears to benefit business education more than design education; business thinkers will get schooled in design methods. But will D-schools produce great designers? Will D-schools produce design-friendly business thinkers and business-friendly design thinkers? Yes. Will they make design about business? You bet. But design is about so much more! Would "Business Innovation Schools" be a more suitable name? Let's wait and see.

Date reviewed: Nov 13, 2006 5:31 PM

Nickname: martin

Review: Where is the so much wanted list then?

Date reviewed: Oct 19, 2006 12:41 PM