Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce

DESIGN THE WORLD YOU'RE READY FOR

Whether your dream is to develop the next generation’s most popular tech product, or build a sustainable energy system to help developing countries, Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce (DEC) offers the knowledge and real-life experience to help you reach your goal. Through our award-winning DEC curriculum, you will gain an understanding of related industries to guide breakthrough collaborations, and the deep discipline-specific knowledge to position you to exceed your career expectations.

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Professionals From Day One

So you want to design the next great product line or creative campaign, engineer a solution to the global water or energy crisis, start your own company or be the next entrepreneur on the cover of Forbes? The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce is for you.

Academic Programs

Dean's Message

Research & Innovation

College Leadership

Kanbar Diversity Action Committee

Kanbar Summer Academy Fashion & Textile Summer Academy: Wanderlust

The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce offers a 2025 Summer Academy program from July 14-18 for students interested in Textile Design, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising & Management and Visual Communication Design. The program is open to students entering their freshman, sophmore, junior or senior year of high school.

More information and registration details can be found by clicking the link below.

School of Design & Engineering

With great focus on conceptual thinking, intellectual curiosity and creative expression, our classes and curriculum serve as incubators for students ready to shape the world and push beyond what’s expected.

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School of Business

Here, we don’t deal with business as usual. Our students are primed to develop new critical theories and work alongside peers studying different sectors of business to see just how their expertise can flex.

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Kanbar's DEC Core

The DEC Core curriculum offers an integrated educational experience that prepares students to think critically about the world, which gives them a multidimensional understanding of their rapidly evolving fields.

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Research & Innovation

Fashion & Textiles Futures Center

Jefferson's premier center for fashion and textile programs, immerses students in experiences that mirror industry: the Futures Center provides a forward-looking, market-sensitive, dynamic and highly collaborative environment.

Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities

Jefferson’s Institute for Smart and Healthy Cities was created to support the research, innovation and education that is happening across the university focusing on transforming urban environments into smart and healthy cities.

Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing

The first - and only - education and training institute for biopharmaceutical processing in North America that combines commercial single-use processing equipment with the internationally recognized NIBRT curriculum.

Jefferson Center of Immersive Arts for Health

A platform for collaborative teaching, research, and prototyping where dynamic and interactive design technologies fuse with patient experience.

Industry Projects

The Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce gives students the unprecedented opportunity to gain valuable real-world experience by working collaboratively across disciplines on industry-sponsored projects.

Recent College News

John S. Thackrah & Susan C. Aldridge, PhD

Thomas Jefferson University Announces Gift to Launch Thackrah Capital Markets Research Lab

Jefferson's School of Business Establishes New Partnership with Montgomery County Community College

Susan C. Aldridge, PhD, Formally Installed as University President

Kanbar Degrees & Programs

Business Undergraduate

Business Graduate

Design Undergraduate

Design Graduate

Engineering & Technology Undergraduate

Engineering & Technology Graduate

Through the award-winning DEC curriculum, students gain the added value of expertise in related fields, as well as deep discipline-specific knowledge. The program retains the core learning of each major while forging new collaborations between designers, engineers and entrepreneurs.

Desirable, feasible, valuable ideas and the thinkers behind them are what Kanbar College is all about.

Business Programs

Design Programs

Engineering & Technology Programs

Non-Degree Programs

Undergraduate
Business Degrees & Programs

Accounting

Business Administration

Accelerated BS

Fashion Merchandising & Management

Finance

Human Resource Management

Accelerated BS

Information Technology

Accelerated BS

Information Technology Management

Accelerated BS

International Business

Management

Marketing

Organizational Leadership

Accelerated BS

Graduate
Business Degrees & Programs

Fashion Merchandising & Management

MBA

MBA (Online)

Organizational Leadership

Accelerated MS

Taxation

Graduate Certificates Now Available Organizational MS in Leadership & Certificate Options

Students in the MS in Organizational Leadership (MSOL) program benefit from the program’s stackable concentration model, which allows students to focus coursework around key skills, as well as the option to choose from nine graduate certificates.

Learn more about the concentrations and each of the certificate options.

Graduate Certificate Options (MSOL)