Master’s Degree in UX Design (UX)
Certification : Titre enregistré au répertoire national des certifications professionnelles N° de fiche RNCP38364, Date d’échéance de l’enregistrement : 31-12-2027 délivré par le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche
Presentation
The Master’s degree in UX Design (UX) at ESUV is a qualification registered with the RNCP at Level 7, designed to train hybrid experts over a two-year period who are capable of evolving from operational designers into user experience strategists, with a strong emphasis on leadership, strategic vision, and the management of complex projects.
This programme is perfectly aligned with the needs of managers within specialised technology organisations who are seeking creative, passionate, curious, and motivated professionals.
The ESUV UX Master’s programme enables students to become highly operational from their very first professional experience. Courses, conferences, masterclasses, and business games are delivered by industry professionals who are experts in their respective fields.
Access to our network of premium partner companies is provided to support your work-study placement.
Prerequisites
ENTRY LEVEL(S)
Bachelor’s degree / Licence and Bac+4
Prerequisites: The Master’s degree in UX Design (UX) at ESUV is open to holders of a Bachelor’s degree / Licence or any other Level 6 qualification and, for entry into the second year of the Master’s programme, to candidates who have validated a Master 1 or have obtained a waiver from the certifying body.
Admission is based on the review of the application file and may include an interview.
This programme does not offer any equivalences or transfer pathways.
Programme objectives
The Master’s degree in UX Design (UX) at ESUV is a state-recognised Level 7 qualification aimed at achieving the following objectives:
- Conduct user interviews, surveys, and usability audits
- Understand cognitive mechanisms in order to design intuitive user journeys
- Align user needs with the company’s business objectives
- Create complex interactive prototypes to test concepts prior to development
- Learn to design and maintain a reusable component library to ensure large-scale visual consistency
- Work on micro-interactions, animations, and interface state feedback to enhance user engagement
- Learn to lead designers, provide constructive feedback, and manage external service providers
- Integrate into a development cycle and collaborate closely with developers and Product Managers
- Facilitate co-design workshops with stakeholders (clients, marketing teams, engineers)
- Explore UX for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), voice user interfaces (VUI), and artificial intelligence
Further Studies
This Master’s degree is professionally oriented and therefore leads directly to employment.
Degrees and Certifications
Students entering the first year of the Master’s programme are required to validate all skills blocks
Admission Procedures and Deadlines
Access deadlines
- Applications for the September 2026 intake are open from 1 March to 20 September 2026.
- Applications for the deferred January 2027 intake remain open until 18 December 2026.
Modalities
Access to our programmes may be initiated:
- By the employer,
- At the employee’s initiative, with their employer’s agreement,
- By a student or their legal guardian
- Work-study is available from the third year onwards
Upon completion of the application form, our institution undertakes to respond within 72 hours.
If the programme requires specific prerequisites, we will propose, regardless of the funding method you are considering, a knowledge assessment and/or a positioning interview (by telephone or videoconference) and/or a review of your application file.
Duration
DURATION OF STUDIES:
- 2 years for students holding a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent qualification, and 1 year for students who have completed the first year of a Master’s programme.
- Work-study programme available.
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- Paris : (+33) 01 84 80 32 36
- Lyon : 04 28 01 99 10
- Email : contact@esuv-ecole.fr
Teaching Methods and Assessment
Assessment Methods: Case studies and/or tests and/or essays and/or text analyses and/or multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and/or oral assessments and/or research projects / Continuous assessment / Work-study and competency evaluation (written + oral) / Thesis defence / Professional evaluation in the company
Programme Summary Documents: Course materials (PDF, and/or Word, and/or PPT formats), case studies and/or audio and video resources, and any exercises to be completed during the programme
Career Opportunities
- Project Manager
- Product Designer
- UX Researcher
- UX/UI Designer
- Digital Transformation Consultant
- Lead UX
- Head of Design
- Product Manager
- Chief Experience Officer
- Digital Art Director
Programme
YEAR 1
The UX programme in Year 1, which aims to develop managerial skills, is structured as follows:
Semester 1:
- Corporate Strategy
- Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
- Project and Innovation Management
- Managerial Geopolitics
- Corporate Finance and Cash Flow Management
- English
- Business Challenges in a Globalised Economy
- Business Law
Semester 2:
- Business Model & Business Plan
- Innovation Marketing
- Data Management in Business
- Globalisation and International Economics
- Introduction to Marketing and Communication
- Corporate Sales Strategies
- Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Monitoring
- Persona and Experience Mapping
- Business Game
- Internship (Optional)
YEAR 2
The UX programme in the specialisation year is organised around two (2) main areas:
AREA 1: SPECIALISED MODULES
Semester 1:
- Agile Project Management
- Data Marketing and Data Analysis
- Design Thinking and Interaction Design
- E-commerce and Customer Relationship Management
Semester 2:
- Intellectual Property Law
- Client Needs Analysis and Reformulation
- Leadership and Team Management
- Strategic Marketing and Product Placement
- Business Game
- Internship (Mandatory)
- Dissertation Writing
AREA 2: CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Validation of skills blocks:
- Block 1: Create and develop a digital entrepreneurship project using AI
- Block 2: Design a digital project following a UX Design approach adapted to AI
- Block 3: Manage a digital project using agile methodology, and develop its functional specifications and technical requirements
- Block 4: Develop an e-marketing and communication strategy for a digital entrepreneurship project using AI
- Block 5: Conduct studies and write reports in competitive intelligence and corporate strategy
Our Training Organisation
Tuition Fees
Information regarding the cost of this programme can be accessed by clicking on the following link : https://esuv-ecole.fr/tarifs-et-financements/
