Strate School of Design (formerly known as Strate College) is a French private institution for technical education founded in 1993. Its main campus is in Sèvres south-west of Paris. It is dedicated to the teaching of industrial design, 3D modeling and design thinking. The school is recognized by the French state and its design degree is certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education.

Key dates 
1993

Jean-René Talopp, former designer and director of the "ESDI" design school, founds the « Strate Collège ».

2010

The school moves to a new campus in Sèvres.

2013

Dominique Sciamma becomes the director of Strate.

2014

The school changes its name to « Strate School of Design », its logo and adopts a new motto: «Making the world +simple, +fair, +beautiful».

2015

The Strate Executive Education programme is launched to train professionals and managerial staff to Design Thinking and innovation by design.

Strate is recognized by the French state in the publication of the "Bulletin Officiel de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche" on 7 December 2015. This has entitled the school to welcome government scholars for the design and modeling courses since 2017.

2017

The Ministry’s of Higher Education "Bulletin Officiel de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche" lists the school as one of the few design schools in France to deliver a diploma recognized by the Minister in charge of higher education.

Teaching 
Some programs last five years (bac+5), others three (MBA). The two main subjects in the curriculum are design and modeling.

Design course 
The first two years of the Design course are about teaching the fundamentals of drawing, perspective, modeling and design methodology.

In the third year the students specialize in one major: product, transportation, packaging & retail, or interaction. A first six-month internship takes place in the third year.

In year four, the students are requested to spend the first semester abroad either at a partner design school of the CUMULUS association, or by doing an internship. The students then come back to school for a period of projects with partner companies.

The fifth year is dedicated to the preparation of the diploma. Students are requested to write a memoir and formalize their project, which they present to a jury of professionals (independent designers, designers in agencies, office managers, marketing managers). After this presentation students are requested to do a final internship in France or abroad.

3D Modeling course 
The 3D modeling course is a 3-year undergraduate diploma which teaches traditional and digital modeling.

Degrees 

Strate delivers the diploma of «industrial designer », which is recognized by the government as a level I title for the 5 years of studies after the French baccalaureate (niveau I RNCP code 200n, JO du 06-07-08). Since the publication of the Higher Education Ministry "Bulletin Officiel de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche" on June the 29th 2017 the school is one of the few design schools in France to deliver a degree referred to by the Minister of higher education.

For the design course two double diploma agreements exist with Grenoble School of Management and Sciences Po Paris.

Two double degree designer-manager options are offered to students by doing an additional tuition-free year at Grenoble School of Management or Sciences Po Paris.

Programs taught in English

Master in Design in Transportation 
The master in Design in Transportation is a 2-year post-graduate master's degree. It is recognized by the French State through its registration by the National Council of Professional Certification (RNCP) at Level 1.

Master in design for Smart Cities 
The master in design for smart cities is a 2-year post-graduate master's degree. The course can take place in Paris and Singapore. It is recognized by the French State through its registration by the National Council of Professional Certification (RNCP) at Level 1.

Partnerships

Academic partnerships 
For the design course student exchanges are made with other schools of the international association of art & design universities CUMULUS.

Two double degree agreements exist with Grenoble School of Management and Sciences Po Paris.

The school has developed the collaborative project "CPi" (Conception de produit innovant) with engineering school Centrale Supélec and ESSEC Business School. For 9 months mixed teams of students of the three schools work on innovation challenges submitted by partner companies. Since 2005 over fifty compagnies have supported the program producing 150 students projects.

Since 2014 the "Design & Science Université Paris-Saclay" prize has been led by Strate. It was previously called "ArtScience Prize" from 2014 to 2016. It gathers students of Strate with students from prestigious French engineering schools such as Télécom ParisTech, CentraleSupélec, ENS Paris-Saclay or École Polytechnique to work on a same project. It aims to develop innovative ideas upon advanced scientific themes. Every year about 40 students work together on a same brief during six months and are coached by professors from their schools, the winners of the prize get a scholarship for the development of their project and other help.

Strate is one of the founding schools of the "Web School Factory" school in Paris.

Links with businesses 
The school has signed various agreements with compagnies to train the employees through the "Strate Executive Education" branch and companies to offer innovation, research projects and internship to students:
 Korian in October 2017
 Laval Virtual in March 2017
 CEA List in March 2017
 L'Oréal in March 2016
 Derichebourg Multiservices in September 2015
 Carrefour in June 2015
 Renault in December 2013

Research 
The school has a research branch "Strate Research" and is part of various French institutes:
 member of the "Institut Vedecom", for clean and sustainable transportation;
 member of "Institut Carnot Telecom & Société numérique" and has been labeled Carnot for the quality of its research partnerships;
 member of "Institut de recherche et d'innovation";
In June 2017 the laboratory "EXALT Design Lab" for design valorization in businesses is created at Strate in cooperation with 5 big companies and two major academic laboratories. All the partners are engaged for a 4 year research project.

Rankings 
The French student magazine "l'Étudiant" published some years a ranking of the "product design schools preferred by professionals" (écoles de design produit préférées des pros). There are about 77 design schools in France and Strate is regularly mentioned as one of the best.

In 2017 the student news website l'Étudiant said Strate School of Design distinguished itself for its dynamism, following closely the mutations of the designer's profession. And also by creating partnerships with foreign schools and collaboration with various research actors.

The school is well known in the car design world since its transportation design course exists since its schools opening in 1993. The website Car Design News by adding up all the successive results for the years 2011 to 2015 of student participations in the Car Design Awards competition ranked the school as one of the top transportation design school in the world.

Alumni 
The association "Strate Alumni" has over 1200 members.

International 
Strate School of design is a member of the international association CUMULUS. For the design course student exchanges are made with other schools of the international association of art & design universities CUMULUS.

The school is also a member of the World Design Organization, an international non-governmental organization that promotes the profession of industrial design and its ability to generate better products, systems, services, and experiences.

Singapore and Bangalore campuses 
Strate School of Design established in Singapore in 2017, and received in 2018 the registration from the Committee For Private Education / SkillsFuture (part of Ministry of Education).   Strate also signed a partnership with « Social Innovation Park », a not for profit organization aiming at Educate, Empower and Enhance social entrepreneurs and innovators.  The campus of Strate is located in the epicenter of Design for Singapore, namely the National Design Centre. 
Strate Singapore offers a suite of Design curricula of which the Master in Design for Smart Cities, in both full-time and part-time formats..

Strate School of Design opened in 2018 a large campus in Bangalore, India, together with other institutions from the Studialis group.

Ownership 
The school is a member of the Studialis group that belongs to the investment fund GALILEO.

References

Private universities and colleges in France
Design schools in France
Design schools in India
Industrial design
Buildings and structures in Hauts-de-Seine
Education in Île-de-France
1993 establishments in France
Educational institutions established in 1993
스트라트 에콜 드 디자인(, 예전 스트라트 대학(Strate Collège))는 파리 남서부 세브르에 위치한 프랑스의 사립고등기술기관이다. 2007년 비지니스 위크(Business Week)에 의해 세계의 아트, 디자인 학교 중에서 60개 베스트 디자인 학교(60 Best Design Schools)로 선정되었다.

또한 전 세계 46개국 189개의 아트 및 디자인 학교로 구성된 단체인 Cumulus(International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media)의 회원이다.
Cumulus의 회원학교로 한국에 알려진 대학으로는 로얄 컬리지 오브 아트(Royal College of Art, 영국), 도무스 아카데미(Domus Academy, 이태리), 아트 센터 컬리지 오브 디자인(Art Center College of Design, 미국) 등이 있다.

이 학교에서는 국가등록전문인증(RNCP)의 레벨 I(bac+5 et au-delà) 산업 디자이너 자격을 수여한다.

철학 
본 학교의 철학은 디자인 방법의 중심에 인간을 두는 데에 있다. 학생들은 미학적 접근을 할 수 있도록 훈련받을 뿐만 아니라 디자인 방법론의 사용, 기능 및 의미를 실제 작업을 통해 습득한다. 또한 학생들은 지속가능한 환경과 제품개발에 있어서 에코디자인, 윤리, 적절성 및 정확성을 고려할 수 있는 디자이너로 훈련되고 있다.

학교 교육 
본 대학에서는 정부로부터 산업디자이너로 인정받는 niveau I(프랑스 그랑제꼴 졸업생에게 수여되는 동일한 레벨의 학위, Bac +5과 동일)의 석사학위(RNCP code 200n, JO du 06-07-08)를 수여한다.
1, 2학년에서는 데생, 투시, 모델링과 같은 일반적인 교육이 실시된다. 학생들은 3학년 때에 다음에 나열된 전공 중에서 한 가지를 선택하게 된다.

 제품디자인(Usages & Produits Innovants)
 운송디자인(Mobilité & transport)
 패키징, 브랜드 및 리테일디자인(Packaging, Branding & Retail)
 인터렉션디자인(Systèmes & Objets Interactifs)

3학년 이후 6개월 동안의 실무 교육을 무사히 이수하여야만 하며 4학년은 국제 개방성과 전문적 분야를 위한 기간이다. 첫 학기에서는 모든 학생들이 자매결연된 세계곳곳의 대학에서 필수적으로 교환학생을 수행하게 된다. 또한 이 기간 동안 해외에서 인턴쉽을 실시하는 것도 첫 학기로서 동등히 인정된다. 두 번째 학기에서는 탐험과 혁신을 실행한다. 학생들은 마이크로소프트(Microsoft), 네슬레(nestle), 미슐랭(Michelin), 로레알(loreal), 오랑쥬(Orange), 아카텔 루슨트(Alcatel Lucent), 사젬(Sagem), 라뻬르(Lapeyre), 에스티 로더(Estée Lauder), 다쏘시스템(Dassault Systèmes), 르노(Renault), 푸조 시트로엥 자동차 그룹(PSA) 등의 세계적인 기업과 협력 프로젝트를 수행한다.

5학년은 학위 준비 기간이다. 각 학생들은 연구의 주제에 대한 논문을 작성하고 논문통과 이후 자신의 프로젝트를 진행한다. 디자이너, 기업, 연구소, 마케팅 담당자 뿐만 아니라 저널리스트, 공학자 등 다양한 분야의 외부 전문가들로 구성된 배심원들에게서 프로젝트를 심사받는다.

또한 학생들은 프로젝트 통과 이후 프랑스나 그 외 국가에서 인턴쉽을 무사히 마쳐야만 석사학위를 취득할 수 있다.

교육과정 
본 대학에서는 기본 5년 교과과정 외, 다음과 같은 과정이 제공되고 있다.

 모델러 훈련과정인 디지털 모델링 과정(Cursus Maquette & Modelage Numérique)은 3년 학사과정(Bac+3)으로 전통적, 디지털 모델링의 교육이 실시된다.
 산업 디자인 방법론에 있어서 자신의 지식을 심화하고자 하는 학생들과 전문가들을 위해 파리테크 국립고등광산학교(MINES ParisTech)과 공동으로 진행되는 DI&CI(Design Industriel et Conduite de l'Innovation) 석사과정이 있다.
 2008년도에 그르노블 경영대학(Grenoble École de management)과의 공동과정으로 디자이너-매니저가 되기 위한 학생들을 위한 복수학위과정이 있다.
 파리테크 국립고등기술공예학교(Arts et Métiers ParisTech)와의 공동과정으로 인터렉션 디자인에 한해 디자이너-연구자가 되기 위한 연구석사과정이 있다.

마지막으로, 집중 데생 및 표현 기법 훈련을 위한 여름 워크샵 코스가 있다.

파트너십 학교 
본 대학은 프랑스 최고의 그랑제꼴인 에콜 센트랄 파리(École centrale Paris), 파리고등경제상업학교(ESSEC)과 개발한 CPI프로그램을 통해 엔지니어-마케팅-디자인 간의 혁신적 융합교육을 실시하고 있다.

또한 프랑스에서 가장 권위 있는 대학기관인 파리테크에 포함된 에꼴 폴리테크닉(École polytechnique), 파리 국립광업학교(MINES ParisTech), 파리테크 국립고등기술공예학교(Arts et Métiers ParisTech), 국립고등교량도로학교(École des Ponts ParisTech)와도 교육과 학업에 있어서 실질적인 교류관계를 맺고 있다.

뿐만 아니라 전 세계 23개국 31개 학교와 직접적인 교류 및 교환학생 제도를 4학년 전학생을 대상으로 실시하고 있으며 대표적인 학교로는 포르츠하임 대학(Pforzheim University, 독일), 로드아일랜드 디자인학교(Rhode Island School of Design, 미국) 그리고 한국에서는 국민대학교 조형대학이 있다.

참고 문헌

외부 링크 
  스트라트 대학 공식 웹사이트

프랑스의 대학교
프랑스의 미술 학교
디자인 학교
사립 대학
오드센주의 건축물
일드프랑스의 교육
산업 디자인