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## DESIGN THE WORLD YOU'RE READY FOR
Whether your dream is to develop the next generation’s most popular tech product, or build a sustainable energy system to help developing countries, Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce (DEC) offers the knowledge and real-life experience to help you reach your goal. Through our award-winning DEC curriculum, you will gain an understanding of related industries to guide breakthrough collaborations, and the deep discipline-specific knowledge to position you to exceed your career expectations.
## Professionals From Day One
So you want to design the next great product line or creative campaign, engineer a solution to the global water or energy crisis, start your own company or be the next entrepreneur on the cover of *Forbes*? The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce is for you.
## Kanbar Summer Academy Fashion & Textile Summer Academy: Wanderlust
The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce offers a 2025 Summer Academy program from July 14-18 for students interested in Textile Design, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising & Management and Visual Communication Design. The program is open to students entering their freshman, sophmore, junior or senior year of high school.
More information and registration details can be found by clicking the link below.
## School of Design & Engineering
With great focus on conceptual thinking, intellectual curiosity and creative expression, our classes and curriculum serve as incubators for students ready to shape the world and push beyond what’s expected.
## School of Business
Here, we don’t deal with business as usual. Our students are primed to develop new critical theories and work alongside peers studying different sectors of business to see just how their expertise can flex.
## Kanbar's DEC Core
The DEC Core curriculum offers an integrated educational experience that prepares students to think critically about the world, which gives them a multidimensional understanding of their rapidly evolving fields.
## Research & Innovation
### Fashion & Textiles Futures Center
Jefferson's premier center for fashion and textile programs, immerses students in experiences that mirror industry: the Futures Center provides a forward-looking, market-sensitive, dynamic and highly collaborative environment.
### Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities
Jefferson’s Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities was created to support the research, innovation and education that is happening across the university focusing on transforming urban environments into smart and healthy cities.
### Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing
The first - and only - education and training institute for biopharmaceutical processing in North America that combines commercial single-use processing equipment with the internationally recognized NIBRT curriculum.
### Jefferson Center of Immersive Arts for Health
A platform for collaborative teaching, research, and prototyping where dynamic and interactive design technologies fuse with patient experience.
### Industry Projects
The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce gives students the unprecedented opportunity to gain valuable real-world experience by working collaboratively across disciplines on industry-sponsored projects.
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## Kanbar Degrees & Programs
|  | Business Graduate | Design Undergraduate | Design Graduate |  | Engineering & Technology Graduate |
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Through the award-winning , students gain the added value of expertise in related fields, as well as deep discipline-specific knowledge. The program retains the core learning of each major while forging new collaborations between designers, engineers and entrepreneurs.
Desirable, feasible, valuable ideas and the thinkers behind them are what Kanbar College is all about.
## Undergraduate Business Degrees & Programs
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BS
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Accelerated BS
### Fashion Merchandising & Management
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### Organizational Leadership
## Graduate Business Degrees & Programs
MS
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### Taxation
## Graduate Certificates Now Available Organizational MS in Leadership & Certificate Options
Students in the MS in Organizational Leadership (MSOL) program benefit from the program’s stackable concentration model, which allows students to focus coursework around key skills, as well as the option to choose from nine graduate certificates.
Learn more about the concentrations and each of the certificate options.
## Undergraduate Design Degrees & Programs
### Animation & Digital Media
### Fashion Design
### Industrial Design
### Textile Design
### Visual Communication Design
## Graduate Design Degrees & Programs
### Fashion Design Technology
### Global Textile Design
MS/MSc
### Health Communication Design
### User Experience & Interaction Design
## Undergraduate Engineering & Technology Degrees & Programs
### Engineering
BSE
### Mechanical Engineering
### Textile Product Science
## Graduate Engineering & Technology Degrees & Programs
### Advanced Biotherapeutics: Manufacturing & Regulatory Affairs
### Biologics Processing
PhD
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### Biopharmaceutical Process Engineering
### Textile Engineering & Science
### Textile Technology
## Non-Degree Programs
### Academy of Municipal Innovation
### Surface Imaging Non-Degree Graduate Coursework
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