Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Design opened in April 2006. It includes the former Faculty of Art's departments of Product Communication Design, and Architecture. The former Visual Communication Design department has been reorganized to provide Graphic Design, and Digital Creation majors. New courses have been added in Illustration, and Interior Product Design.

Design is an all-encompassing field which is still expanding in today’s digitalized and networked society. Our Faculty of Design enables students to develop real expertise and their own methods of expression in this field.

KSU aims to foster designers who have the globally competitive ability to express, plan & propose. In addition to technical and theoretical studies, they will work closely with professionals who are playing an active role in in society at the forefront of design.

Statistics, Faculty of Design (May 2009):
Total undergraduate enrollment: 864
(M: 306; F: 558)

Overseas undergraduate students: 20
Seika Visual Net (In Japanese)

Graduation exhibitions: Online catalogs 1998-2006 (click through to individual images of work by every graduating student in each department...).

Undergraduate Students
Details of undergraduate (B.A.) courses are available on our Japanese website. (In Japanese – please note that all KSU classes are taught in Japanese, and the application process is also all in Japanese).

Graduate Students
Master's level (and in some cases, Ph.D level) courses may be available through our Graduate School of Art. A high level of Japanese language ability (speaking, reading, writing) is required.

Exchange Students
Exchange students are welcomed from universities with which Kyoto Seika University has official reciprocal agreements (in the order in which these links were established). Please note however that Interior Product Design is a new department, and is not yet ready to accept exchange students:

• ANU School of Art, National Institute of the Arts,Canberra, Australia
• School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Southern California Institute of Architecture  (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles USA
• Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence USA
  Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
• Hong Ik University, Korea
• The Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Arts, Finland
• Cooper Union, New York, USA
• California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA
• Alto University School of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland
• Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Kassel School of Arts & Design, Kassel, Germany
• Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK
• L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, France
• L'Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, Paris, France
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture. Paris Malaquais, Paris, France