根据2006年10月5日美国《商业周刊》首个有关全球最佳设计学院及设计课程的调查，湖南大学设计艺术学院名列《商业周刊》60所全球最佳设计学院之一，中国列入名单的大学还有清华大学、上海同济大学和香港理工大学。 《商业周刊》表示，由于中国把创新视为首要任务，并努力从“中国制造”走向“中国设计”，因此，设计中国大学的地位日益重要。 设计在线.中国

此次排名由《商业周刊》根据24位国际设计和设计教育界的专家提供的咨询而完成。专家名单如下：
Chris Bangle, Director of Design, BMW Group
Peter Barna, Provost, Pratt Institute
Yves Behar, Founder, fuseproject www.dolcn.com
Katherine Bennett, IDSA Education Vice-President, and Professor of Product Design, Art Center College of Design
Mark Breitenberg, Dean of Undergraduate Education, Art Center College of Design, and Chair of the Education Committee, International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
Heather Fraser, Director, Business Design Initiative, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Tamara Giltsoff, Live | Work
Walter Herbst, Director, Master of Product Development Program, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Barry Jaruzelski, Vice-President, Innovation Practice, Booz Allen Hamilton
Chuck Jones, Vice-President, Global Consumer Design, Whirlpool
Lorraine Justice, Professor and Head of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Design
Larry Keeley, President, Doblin Inc. www.dolcn.com
David Kelley, Founder of IDEO, and Co-founder of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
Claus Knapheide, Director of User Experience, Siemens
Mick Malisic, Director of Marketing, Frog Design 设计在线.中国
Brian Matt, Founder, CEO, Altitude www.dolcn.com
Dev Patnaik, Founder, Jump Associates
Ravi Sawhney, CEO-President, RKS Design
Jeff Semenchuk, EVP, Global Consumer Group Innovation, Citigroup
RitaSue Siegel, President, RitaSue Siegel Resources
Bob Sutton, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, and Co-founder of Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
Sohrab Vossoughi, President, ZIBA Design
Patrick Whitney, Director, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology
Gianfranco Zaccai, President and CEO, Continuum

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