Our Global Impact

Transforming higher education around the globe.

The University Design Institute is committed to making higher education a powerful catalyst for social and economic change

We empower changemakers in higher education by providing tools, insights and frameworks to create long-term, sustainable transformation. Our ultimate goal is to make ourselves redundant — ensuring that our partners gain the knowledge and strategies to independently advance their initiatives for a better future.


25 Countries

130+ Institutions

Our work has taken us all over the globe, working with individual institutions to large, multi-country systems. 

Selected co-design collaborators

University of Guadalajara
Zayed University
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
American University Kyiv
SEMESP
UNN Korea
USAID
Mastercard Foundation

Building an American University in Ukraine

UDI provided design support via a series of rapid prototyping sessions to advance a greenfield project in Kyiv with the goal of establishing an American-…