This Design Thinking online course equips professionals and students with practical skills to drive innovation, foster empathy, and build impactful solutions across industries. Designed to develop future-ready leaders, it blends research, ideation, prototyping, and real-world testing.
This course is ideal for professionals in product development, UX/UI, innovation, HR, strategy, and consulting roles, as well as aspiring Design Thinking coaches and trainers. If you're seeking the best Design Thinking certification to elevate your problem-solving and customer-centric innovation capabilities, this program is for you.
The Post Graduate Certificate in Design Thinking is a transformative, user-centric program designed to help professionals solve complex business problems through empathy, creativity, and innovation. This Design Thinking certification empowers learners to adopt a structured methodology involving research, ideation, prototyping, and testing.
Through this approach, professionals learn to uncover unspoken user needs and develop scalable solutions that align with business goals. The program encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and fosters a mindset that promotes agile thinking, rapid iteration, and impactful decision-making.
By combining real-world case studies, practical exercises, and conceptual learning, learners are trained to deliver products, services, and experiences that deeply resonate with end-users and stakeholders.
Through this Design Thinking online course, students will:
Apply design thinking principles to tackle real-world business and design challenges
Integrate empathy and creativity into problem-solving and innovation
Create low-cost, high-impact prototypes to validate user-driven solutions
Lead cross-functional teams to foster a culture of agile innovation
Looking to enroll in an online PG Certificate in Design Thinking from Symbiosis? You must be:
A graduate in any discipline from a recognised university.
Student in the final year of graduation or awaiting final results (may apply provisionally).
An International/SAARC graduate (AIU equivalence certificate required for foreign degrees).
PG Certificate in Design Thinking: Eligibility applies to both fresh graduates and professionals with relevant experience.
A Degree Equivalence Certificate issued by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is mandatory for applicants who have completed their education from any foreign (out of India) school, college, university, or institute.
Program Duration: 1 Year
Registration Period Validity: 2 Academic Years
This flexibility makes it one of the most practical online certificate courses in Design Thinking in India.
Introduction to Design Thinking
Empathy with Users
Discovery and Interpretation of Challenges
Prototypes of a Big Idea
Big Ideas with Design Thinking
Tracking and Testing of Success
Project
Design Thinking Facilitator
Innovation Manager
Product Manager
Service Designer
Design Researcher
Design Strategist
Design Consultant
Design Sprint Facilitator
Design Innovation Analyst
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Exam fee is not included in program fee.
At Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, the PGCDT program equips you with problem-solving techniques, prototyping, and user research.
We prepare you for roles in product innovation, UX, and creative strategy with a strong foundation in real-world design thinking practices, with focused training and placement guidance.
At the end of the program, you will receive an AICTE-approved Post Graduate Certificate in Design Thinking from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning— A certificate of excellence recognised across industries.
If you're seeking a Post Graduate Certificate in Design Thinking with real-world relevance, unmatched flexibility, and global credibility, the PGCDT course from Symbiosis is your best bet.
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The application form fee for all applicants is: ₹ 1200/-
Note: Application fee is non-refundable.
Total Program Fee: ₹ 74,000/-
General: ₹ 44,000 + ₹ 30,000
Defence: ₹ 43,000 + ₹28,000
International: ₹ 92,000 + ₹ 62,000
SAARC: ₹ 77,000 + ₹ 51,000
1. Pay first instalment or one-time full fee immediately after grant of admission.
2. Pay second instalment within 45 days of payment of first instalment or on or before the last date to pay full fee, whichever is earlier, as per policy.
Pay Full Fee in One Instalment On-the-Spot and Avail ₹5,000/- to ₹17,000/- Off
(Discount amount is subject to the admission category applied).
General: ₹ 69,000
Defence: ₹ 66,000
International: ₹ 1,40,000
SAARC: ₹ 1,11,000
Easy EMI – Starting from 6000/month
Education loan available with easy EMI options for 6, 9, and 12 months, starting from just ₹6,000 to ₹9,000 per month.
Paying complete course fee immediately, will make all benefits of the program immediately available as per admission policy.
Installment option closes 15 days before the last specified date of admission.
Exam fee & Project fee is not included in program fee and has to be paid separately.
Pay exam fee per paper per attempt. Exam fees or project fee is non-refundable & non-transferable.
Online: Pay application form fee, program fee & all exam fees online. OR
Demand Draft: Pay program & all exam fees via Demand Draft (DD) drawn in favour of “The Director SCDL, Pune” payable at Pune.
(Note: SCDL does not accept any fee in cash.)