At AKTO, key components of our educational philosophy are our connection to industry and the market, through collaborations with professionals, academics, as well as art and cultural organizations. Through your studies at AKTO, you’ll meet and connect with professors, other students, university staff, academics, and professionals in the field. Expanding your network will help you identify potential career options, develop your professional skills, and gain understanding and critical thinking in your field of study.

During your postgraduate studies, your fellow students share the desire to specialize in a specific field, and this in itself is an active network that you’ll have the opportunity to get to know, influence, and make use of in the future. You’ll be surrounded by professors, professional artists, academics, and fellow postgraduate students, who are motivated to achieve their goals. The academic team will guide you and offer you excellent study material and references in the fields of arts and design, always in line with the most recent technologies used in the market.

In addition, you’ll get to know members of AKTO’s Art and Design community, guest speakers, experts, professionals, like-minded artists, and future collaborators. After graduating from AKTO, you have the opportunity to become a member of AKTO Alumni, the largest graduate community in Art & Design. Through the alumni community, you’ll have the opportunity to network with other professionals and businesses in the field. AKTO Alumni also includes AKTO’s Careers Office, which dozens of businesses turn to every year looking for collaborators.

Postgraduate study programmes are more independent than undergraduate ones. Members of the postgraduate student community put in more personal effort into the learning process. They take the initiative to develop new personal and professional skills in specialized fields of their choice, such as independence, time management, decision-making, and others. Meeting other members from different cities, different ages, different portfolios, and different fields helps develop social skills, as well as build confidence in communication. Expanding your network of contacts will help you identify further options regarding your career, as well as gain deeper understanding and critical thinking in your field of study.

Every year, the job market places its trust in graduates from an educational institution with the standing, processes, consistency, and history of AKTO. With multiple practical and symbolic benefits, studying at AKTO gives all graduates the prestige of a nationally recognized educational institution synonymous with the arts and design. By choosing AKTO, students join the largest art & design community in Greece and become, after graduation, lifelong members of AKTO Alumni. Graduating from AKTO is a significant competitive advantage when seeking any kind of professional collaboration. Naturally, employers and future collaborators in general prefer to work with well-trained, up-to-date professionals — something that studying at AKTO guarantees. That’s why, for over 50 years, businesses have been choosing AKTO Alumni members to work with.

Read here all the reasons to choose AKTO

Sustainability & Product Innovation
“Sustainability is not just a trend; it’s about creating products that respect both the user and the planet.”
— Yves Behar

Design exists to create “solutions” to human needs and desires. Through the visualization and functional study of each “solution,” designers balance between effective service, socio-historical documentation, and aesthetic excellence.

AKTO’s MA in Design is the only cross-disciplinary Master’s programme in Design in the country, with many years of presence and contribution to research and professional specialization, offering contemporary directions of study.

MA in Design: Sustainability & Product Innovation focuses on designing products with a sustainable character and innovative approaches, aiming at developing functional, aesthetic, and ecologically responsible solutions. In AKTO’s MA in Design: Sustainability & Product Innovation, students gain knowledge and skills covering the whole spectrum of product design — from conceiving the idea to production and commercial promotion.

The programme aims to shape strong designers with critical thinking, a research mindset, and both individual and social responsibility. Students go on to master new knowledge in order to apply it professionally in new contexts that broaden the horizons of design — both in content and in form. Graduates of the programme gain deep understanding and training across all relevant fields of their studies, learning the most contemporary theories and applications, so as to meet the needs of today’s market with a pioneering mindset and specialization.

As a member of the student community of the MA in Design: Sustainability & Product Innovation postgraduate programme, you can be professionally and academically active across a wide, dynamic range of fields — from product design and industrial production, to visual merchandising and fashion marketing. Specifically:

• Product Design, Design Innovation, Industrial Product Design, Conceptual Product Design
• Fashion Design, Costume Design
• Visual Merchandising
• Fashion Marketing

At AKTO, you don’t just study — you create your future. As a member of AKTO Alumni, you gain access to a strong network of professionals and partners. AKTO’s Careers Office is always by your side, supporting you at every professional step: from writing your CV and building your portfolio, to interview preparation and connecting with the job market.

Begin your own journey in Sustainable & Innovative Product Design and become a creator who changes the world!

AKTO’s university Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, awarded in collaboration with Middlesex University London, are recognized as professionally equivalent, in accordance with Presidential Decree 38/2010, as amended by Law 4093/2012, 4111/2013, 4205/2013, and 4635/2019. Middlesex University London is recognized by DOATAP as an institution equivalent to Greek Higher Education Institutions. AKTO’s postgraduate programmes are recognized in both the private and public sector for employment purposes. In accordance with Presidential Decree 38/2010, as amended by Law 4093/2012, 4111/2013, 4205/2013, and 4635/2019, professional equivalence is recognized by A.T.E.E.N., for university Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Greece. Holders of these degrees are able to take part in ASEP competitions, in accordance with Article 13 of Law 4148/2013.

See here some decisions concerning AKTO graduates (for personal data protection reasons, the graduates’ details and application reference numbers have been removed).

Read more about the Recognition and Accreditation of AKTO’s University Degrees

AKTO subsidizes students with discounts or even full subsidies, depending on the enrollment period, available places, and social criteria.

Read detailed information here

Contact us at admissions@aktocollege.gr for more information.

For the Postgraduate Study Programmes, the academic year has two (2) intake periods. The first period is in October, followed by the second period in February.

Contact us at admissions@aktocollege.gr for more information about intake periods.

Candidates for the Postgraduate Study Programmes must hold an undergraduate degree or have more than 5 years of professional experience in a field relevant to the Master’s programme they choose. Candidates for the programme go through an interview with an evaluation committee, following submission of the relevant application and the required supporting documents.

Read detailed information about the enrollment requirements at AKTO

AKTO, recognizing the pedagogical challenges and contemporary demands of education, offers its students a range of benefits to help them, both with their studies and with their social life. These benefits include:

• ISIC Student Card (International Student Identity Card)
  • Offers countless benefits and discounts to cardholders
• Counselling Centre
  • Specialized psychologists and counsellors
• VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) access
  • Microsoft Office 365
• Weekly Design Software workshops
• Technical Support
• Fonts from Fonts.GR
• E-Registrar’s Office

Read in detail about all the benefits AKTO offers

• Studies at AKTO are supported by modern, high-aesthetic building facilities, forming a contemporary environment ideal for learning and creation, across two state-of-the-art Campuses, the Athens Campus and the Thessaloniki Campus.

  At AKTO’s two Campuses, we give students access to state-of-the-art, specialized equipment in the fields of art and design, through:

  • Libraries
  • Computer Labs
  • Photography Studios
  • Fashion Labs
  • Fine Art Labs
  • Model-Making & Product Prototyping Labs
  • 3D Printing
  • Green Box Studio
  • Amphitheatre
  • AKTO Gallery

Sustainability & Product Innovation
“Sustainability is not just a trend; it’s about creating products that respect both the user and the planet.”
— Yves Behar

Design exists to create “solutions” to human needs and desires. Through the visualization and functional study of each “solution,” designers balance between effective service, socio-historical documentation, and aesthetic excellence.

AKTO’s MA in Design is the only cross-disciplinary Master’s programme in Design in the country, with many years of presence and contribution to research and professional specialization, offering contemporary directions of study.

MA in Design: Sustainability & Product Innovation focuses on designing products with a sustainable character and innovative approaches, aiming at developing functional, aesthetic, and ecologically responsible solutions. In AKTO’s MA in Design: Sustainability & Product Innovation, students gain knowledge and skills covering the whole spectrum of product design — from conceiving the idea to production and commercial promotion.

The programme aims to shape strong designers with critical thinking, a research mindset, and both individual and social responsibility. Students go on to master new knowledge in order to apply it professionally in new contexts that broaden the horizons of design — both in content and in form. Graduates of the programme gain deep understanding and training across all relevant fields of their studies, learning the most contemporary theories and applications, so as to meet the needs of today’s market with a pioneering mindset and specialization.

As a member of the student community of the MA in Design: Sustainability & Product Innovation postgraduate programme, you can be professionally and academically active across a wide, dynamic range of fields — from product design and industrial production, to visual merchandising and fashion marketing. Specifically:

• Product Design, Design Innovation, Industrial Product Design, Conceptual Product Design
• Fashion Design, Costume Design
• Visual Merchandising
• Fashion Marketing

At AKTO, you don’t just study — you create your future. As a member of AKTO Alumni, you gain access to a strong network of professionals and partners. AKTO’s Careers Office is always by your side, supporting you at every professional step: from writing your CV and building your portfolio, to interview preparation and connecting with the job market.

Begin your own journey in Sustainable & Innovative Product Design and become a creator who changes the world!

AKTO’s university Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, awarded in collaboration with Middlesex University London, are recognized as professionally equivalent, in accordance with Presidential Decree 38/2010, as amended by Law 4093/2012, 4111/2013, 4205/2013, and 4635/2019. Middlesex University London is recognized by DOATAP as an institution equivalent to Greek Higher Education Institutions. AKTO’s postgraduate programmes are recognized in both the private and public sector for employment purposes. In accordance with Presidential Decree 38/2010, as amended by Law 4093/2012, 4111/2013, 4205/2013, and 4635/2019, professional equivalence is recognized by A.T.E.E.N., for university Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Greece. Holders of these degrees are able to take part in ASEP competitions, in accordance with Article 13 of Law 4148/2013.

See here some decisions concerning AKTO graduates (for personal data protection reasons, the graduates’ details and application reference numbers have been removed).

Read more about the Recognition and Accreditation of AKTO’s University Degrees