Kolding School of Design

Kolding School of Design is a design school in Kolding, in the Southern Denmark region. It sits in the register as an academy of arts, music and design, so it is called by its type rather than a university. Teaching and artistic development work are tied to research and practice, and the school has a long record of working with business and cultural institutions.

The school was founded in 1967 as Kolding School of Arts & Crafts, with a focus on textile and advertising design. It added subjects over the years and was awarded university status as a design and research institution in 2010. It is part of Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, and it takes part in the H&M Design Award.

Degrees cover fashion, textiles, communication design, industrial design and accessory design. Design for people, design for planet and design for play are offered only on the MA programme. A Master's in design management runs with the University of Southern Denmark. A substantial part of the artistic work happens in The LAB, a room for experiments where education, business and cultural institutions meet and students work on real cases. Learning goals are set in an international context, and classes travel to partner universities, including in Shanghai and Ghana, to work with local students.

The register lists three English-taught degree programmes, all at Master's level, in the fine arts subject area. The school has just short of 380 active students and a number of PhD students, including industrial PhD students, and admits around 90 new students each year.

For an international student, undergraduate applications go through optagelse.dk, while master's applications go direct to the school. Students from outside the EU/EEA need a residence permit via SIRI. Study is free for EU/EEA and Swiss students, and others pay an institutional fee.