The College of Design encompasses the full range of design disciplines from graphic design, clothing design, and interior design to architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. The college also includes programs in housing studies and retail merchandising. The faculty and students in the college seek to advance the quality and value of the natural, designed, and social environments, with a focus on the interaction of people and their world.
Located in one of the major design cities and in one of the largest research universities in the U.S., the mission of the University of Minnesota's College of Design is to be a national leader in the full range of design fields, with an emphasis on sustainable, socially responsible, civically engaged, user-sensitive, critical and collaborative design work.