Open House for Professionals 2025

Do you want to transform your career?

Watch our Open House for Professionals recordings and discover how you can achieve your goals with OCAD U's flexible masters programs and learning pathways.

Whether you're refining existing skills, advancing in your career, or pivoting to a new creative direction, our master's degrees and continuing education programs are designed to catalyze personal and professional transformation.

Session 1: Empowering growth and change

School of Graduate Studies Info Session: What comes after grad? Real world perspectives

Discover our flexible master’s programs, designed to help professionals balance work, study, and personal growth while enhancing their research and creative practice. Join this session to learn more about how our alumni are driving meaningful change locally and globally.

Watch recordings by program:

Strategic Foresight and Innovation (MDes) | Full-time and Part-time options

Design for Health (Mdes) | Full-time and Part-time options

Inclusive Design (MDes) | Full-time Hybrid

Session 2: Transformative Design

Human-centered Design Certificate Info Session, presented by the School of Continuing Studies

Continuing Studies certificates and micro-credentials allow students to develop their skills in art, design, and media. Courses emphasize design and creativity while providing in depth technical, software, and studio training.

Join us to learn more about our Human-centred Design (HCD) certificate. Over the course of 14-weeks, you will move through the five stages of the HCD process: empathize, design, ideate, prototype and test.

Recording will be available soon.

Session 3: Connecting creative people together

Presentation and Info Session: Thirdspace Emerging Artist Summer Intensive Program
Learn about a new on-campus summer program for emerging artists hosted at OCAD U’s shops and studios, and meet the artist-in-residence who will lead it. In this month-long program, you will have open studio access to develop an artistic work and participate in a final group exhibition.

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President Ana Serrano invites you to our Open House

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Watch Session 1: Graduate Studies

Watch Session 3: Emerging Artist Residency

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Graduate Admissions Events

Explore our info sessions and event recordings to hear from staff and students about our grad programs, international admissions, student life, career pathways, and more!

“Yiyi Shao (MDes, 2019), “RABBOT - Exploring Shared Awareness in Virtual Reality”. Digital Future’s Graduate Exhibition 2019: “What the Futures”. Photo by Chris Luginbuhl and Kristy Boyce.

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