DAAP Makes "A-List" of World s Top Design Schools
The Oct. 9, 2006, issue of BusinessWeek magazine contains a special report on the globes top innovation and design schools. This D-School report card includes a listing of the worlds top design and business programs and includes the University of Cincinnatis College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP).
In addition, the cover shot on the special report features DAAP graduate student Dan Li who has been working at Procter & Gamble, with the companys vice president of innovation, and will use the experience for her UC thesis project.
This is BusinessWeek's the first-ever survey and listing of top design schools and programs schools that are graduating the innovators companies hunger for, according to the report.
To arrive at their head-of-the-class listing, the magazine convened a 24-person advisory board that included employers like Whirlpool, Siemens and BMW who are hiring the new design thinkers and talent.
In addition to DAAP already highly ranked in other surveys and by other media other schools that made BusinessWeeks world-class listing are Oxford University in England, Londons Royal College of Art, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to name just a few.
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