D-Schools 2007

Design Academy Eindhoven

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

700 students, both grad and undergrad
Design

Partnerships
Academic: RCA, (United Kingdom), UIAH (Finland), ECAL (Switzerland), ENSCI (France) RISD, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Business: Professors and students have done project work for Unilever, Sara Lee, and Heinz.
Top Employers: Philips, IKEA, Siemens, BMW

Claim to Fame: Famous alumni include Hella Jongerius, Maarten Baas, Tord Boontje, Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, and Job Smeets.

Signature Programs: In Design Academy's Compass curriculum, students go through eight "rotations" to expose them to various aspects of design: user-centric categories like leisure and well-being; technological categories in the lab, and business categories, finishing with a mandatory one-semester internship.