UPHF launches its design school for industry
At the start of the 2026 academic year, UPHF creates its School of Design for Industry and asserts its ambition: to train designers capable of accompanying major industrial and societal transformations.
The Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France is taking another step forward in the development of its training offering with the creation of the UPHF school of design for industry, which will welcome its first classes at the start of the 2026 academic year.
Through this launch, UPHF affirms its ambition: to train professionals capable of meeting the major industrial, social and environmental challenges of the XXIᵉ century, in close connection with the needs of the territory.
Training tomorrow's systemic and ethical designers
Thought of as a university-integrated design school, the UPHF école de design pour l'industrie will offer post-bac and Bac+4 courses designed to train systemic and responsible designers. Students will be required to design innovative solutions that take into account the complexity of industrial systems, environmental issues and societal transformations.
Anchored in the UPHF polytechnic ecosystem, the school will draw on disciplinary cross-fertilization, research, pedagogical innovation and close links with the socio-economic world.
Accessible, professionally-oriented training
Faithful to the values of public service, UPHF école de design pour l'industrie adopts an accessible model, with controlled tuition fees and free tuition for scholarship students. For its first intake, the school will welcome 60 students:
- 40 first-year students, recruited via Parcoursup .
- 20 students in fourth year, recruited directly by the university
The curriculum is part of a complete 5-year pathway, combining academic excellence, project-based teaching and professionalization, thanks in particular to the involvement of design professionals and work-study over the last two years.
A project at the heart of an innovative regional university
The creation of this school is part of a wider dynamic supported by UPHF: development of new spaces favoring project-based teaching, support for student life and international openness, notably through the EUNICE European alliance.
On a historically industrial territory and at the heart of France's leading industrial region, the UPHF école de design pour l'industrie aims to become a key player in innovation, serving companies, institutions and society.