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  • Graduates are well positioned for careers in business, sustainability management; innovation; social enterprise; strategic and service design, and entrepreneurship in a wide range of industries, organizations, and professional fields. Students who are already working can apply their learning to become "intrapreneurs" in their current organizations, or advance into novel and emerging roles such as chief change officer, chief innovation officer, or lead design thinker.

    Alumni Success

    Graduates of this program pursue advanced study and work in positions ranging from organizational consultants to strategic designers for leading organizations, including the roles shown below.

    • Lead Design Strategist, Wavicle Data Solutions
    • Design Strategist, Purpose PBC
    • Service Design Strategist, the City of Gainesville
    • Design Strategist, Logical Design Solutions
    • Senior Design Strategist, FedEx Services
    • Designer, ?What If! Innovation
    • User Researcher, Bose Corporation
    • Service and Interaction Design Associate Manager, Fjord
    • Senior Project Manager, The Lionesque Group
    • Vice Dean, Universitas Pelita, Philippines
    • Chief Design Officer, Afroceltic
    • Strategic Design Lead, Pininfarina
    • Head of Strategy and Innovation, Medtronics Labs
    • Strategy Designer, Touch Ideas
    • Strategy Director, AKQA
    • Service Design Research Lead, Fannie Mae
    • Strategic Designer, Moonraft Innovation Labs
    • Design Thinking Facilitator, ExxonMobil
    • Director of Innovation Strategy, Lovesac
    • Digital Experience Designer, Ernst & Young
    • Founder, koi strategic design
    • Product Design Lead, CNBC
    • Design Strategist, Gensler
    • Senior UX Designer, Elastic
    • Learning Experience Designer, Trilogy Education
    • Senior Product Strategist, Fuzz
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Undergraduates

To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.

Undergraduate Adult Learners

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Graduates

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

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