All five departments at the Aalto University School of Art and Design offer Doctor of Arts degree programmes: Department of Art, Department of Art and Media Pori, Department of Design, Department of Media and Department of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design.

The degree length is 80 ects. As full-time studies the Doctor of Arts degree should not take more than four years.

The special feature of the Doctor of Arts at School of Art and Design is that the dissertation can also include an art production, a series of art productions meaningfully connected to each other, or a product development project. In such case, the written thesis has to be in a dialogic and analytic relation to the art productions or product development project. The written thesis must be suitable for publication.

The research database, ReseDa gives information about doctoral students and their research projects. You may browse the information by individual researcher, unit or field of study. http://reseda.taik.fi

The upcoming public examinations of dissertations are on calendar.

From 1981 the School of Art and Design has offered postgraduate studies. Both, in total numbers and related to whole student population in the School, doctoral education has grown all through the period. In Spring 2007 ten per cent of degree students were doctoral students. This is an outcome of extensive development at the university. Further developing of doctoral degree and research have been top priorities in the School's strategies for many years.

Annually 8 to 10 Doctors of Arts are graduating from the School of Art and Design. By January 2010 the School had total of 78 doctorates. The employment situation of graduates is very good.