Australia
Canada
Finlandia
Francia
Germania
Italia
Giappone
Olanda
Norvegia
Gran Bretagna
USA
Questa sezione include in particolare i siti delle maggiori università che sviluppano programmi (formativi e applicativi) di ricerca avanzata in Disegno industriale.
Australia
Curtin University of Technology
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/design
Queensland University of Technology
http://www.dbe.bee.qut.edu.au
RMIT University
http://www.rmit.edu.au/rd/centres
The University of Newcastle
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/welcome.html
The University of New South Wales
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/research
University of Technology Sydney
http://www.uts.edu.au/research/index.html
University of Western Sydney
http://www.uws.edu.au/schools/scdm/Research/index.html
Canada
University of Alberta
http://www.ualberta.ca/^artdesin/adhome.htm
Université de Montréal
http://www.din.umontreal.ca
Finlandia
University of Art and Design Helsinki
http://www.uiah.fi/research/english
Francia
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
http://www.utc.fr
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers - ENSAM
http://www.paris.ensam.fr
Germania
Hochschule fur Gestaltung Offenbach
http://www.hfg-offenbach.de/intro.hfg
Fachhochschule Koln
http://www.fh-koeln.de
Italia
Politecnico di Milano
http://www.polimi.it/dottorato
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
http://w3.uniroma1.it/itaca/contenuto/dott/dottor.htm
Giappone
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
http://www.jaist.ac.jp
Olanda
Delft University of Technology
http://www.tudelft.nl/matrix/home.cfm
Technical University of Eindhoven
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/ipo
Norvegia
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
http://www.ntnu.no/indexe.php
Norwegian School of Management
http://web.bi.no/english
Gran Bretagna
Coventry University
http://www.csad.coventry.ac.uk/research/res-hom.htm
Royal College of Art
http://www.rca.ac.uk
Sheffield Hallam University
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/cri/adrc/research2/index.html
Staffordshire University
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/graduate_school/welcome/Homepage.html
The Manchester Metropolitan University
http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk
The Open University
http://design.open.ac.uk
The Robert Gordon University
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/criad/r1.htm
University of Central England in Birmingham
http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk
University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
University of Hertfordshire
http://www.herts.ac.uk
United States
Arizona State University
http://www.asu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/design
Georgia Tech College of Architecture
http://idesign.arch.gatech.edu/
Illinois Institute of Technology
http://www.id.iit.edu/grad/resdegree.html#phd
North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu
The Ohio State University
http://www.osu.edu
University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.uic.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.uiuc.edu
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.upenn.edu