WUD faculty maintains powerful alliances with employers and industry partners that enable students to leverage opportunities to showcase their acquired skills. Multiple MoUs have been signed with some of the best studios in the country, opening possibilities for placements, industry projects, and internships. WUD offers assured placement and entrepreneurial support through partner companies, industry network & incubation centre. The current fashion batch for example got internship with brands like Reliance Retail, Fabindia, Future Group, Maxx, Shahi exports, Namrata Joshipura, Pallavi Mohan etc.
WUD Scope and Placements
WUD is the youngest Indian university to be awarded an ERASMUS+ capacity building grant where it will be working with a consortium of international partner universities including Brunel University, UK; Politecnico di Milano, Italy; and University of Agean, Greece.
WUD has international exchange agreements with leading education institutions like Vancouver Film School & Emily Carr University (Canada); University of Huddersfield & Oxford Brookes University (UK); ENSAIT (France), HAMK (Finland), University of Nicosia (Cyprus), University of Utretch (Netherlands), Universidad De Monterrey & UPAEP (Mexico); University of California, Berkeley, and College of Creative Studies, Michigan (USA). In last two years, fifteen students have already been on their semester exchange with these universities.
WUD is also a member of Cumulus, the international body of design institutions. WUD hosts the prestigious Global Goals Jam Delhi every year in association with UNDP and MediaLab Amsterdam. It also runs the Delhi NCR chapter of Speculative Futures. WUD is a member of an international consortium “Design across Cultures” based out of the Netherlands and having partners from USA, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Korea etc. WUD organises a biannual International Conference on ‘Functional Textiles & Clothing’ in association with IIT Delhi. The conference has been held twice, 2018 & 2020, hosted over 200 scholars from over 30 countries each time.
Faculty from renowned institutions regularly come to WUD to share their knowledge and expertise with students.
- Analytical/ Creative Critical Thinking
- Creative Problem Solving
- Cultural + Community Awareness and Engagement
- Creative Design + Production
- Strong Technical Software + Computer Skills
- Global Perspective + Collaborative Skills
- Leadership + Management