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Opting for a work-study program

Are you independent and well organised ? Do you want to quickly start working ? A work-study program will allow you to study and work at the same time.

At Autograf, missing classes is not an option. Your timetable will take into account your mode of study!

In a work-study program, the student also gets the status of an employee. No more school holidays and a student pace. You will spend one week in school every 2 or 3 weeks and the rest of the time will be spent working for the company that hired you.
All throughout your education, you will also learn the ropes of your future trade and have the opportunity to make your way into a company and prepare your future career.

Although a work-study program shows undeniable benefits (professional experience to add to your resume, reduced tuition and payment of a salary), not everyone might be ready to enroll in such a program right from the first year on. It depends on your personality, maturity and the way you work and study. Some students might prefer starting as an undergraduate student and then continue as part of a work-study scheme.

How do you find a company to work for?

The school is here to help. With more than 38 years of experience in work-study programs, Autograf has a large network of partner companies. The work-study department will give you access to job postings and help you find a position. You should be aware however that we won't replace you during the interview, therefore, if you wish to enroll in a work-study program, you should act professionally and leave nothing to chance. We will of course support you throughout this process. As a matter of fact, Autograf offers, right from the first year of Bachelor's Degree, classes to prepare a "creative" resume and a professional portfolio. All year long, teachers will help you improve your portfolio before presenting it to a jury of professionals at the end of the year. This portfolio will be an asset during your interviews and for the rest of your career.

There are two types of work-study schemes: apprenticeships and vocational training schemes. They both have the same objective of developing your skills as an employee, combining work placement and academic training.

Autograf offers both types of work-study schemes. It's usually up to the company to decide which contract is more indicated, in agreement with the student.

Both schemes work in a similar manner:

  • An employment contract is signed with the company. A salary will be paid to the student.
  • A convention is signed with the designated OPCO that will cover tuition fees.

For further information on a work-study program, we recommend that you visit the work-study portal of the French Ministry of Labour.

Our work-study courses

Most of our programs are compatible with a work-study scheme. Out of the five years needed to complete a Master's Degree, four of them are compatible with a work-study program.

Digital and Print Layout Graphic Designer

Certified Level 4 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP)

This high school-level state-recognized diploma will allow you to learn a trade and work immediately after graduating as a digital and print layout graphic designer.
This program is available to anyone wishing to acquire the required skills to become a digital and print layout graphic designer. You will conceive some products on varied media and supports in the areas of graphic design, publishing, advertising, and digital technology.
The validation of a state-recognised level 4 program will allow you to apply to a higher education institution.

Duration of the course: Six months, face-to-face or distance learning.

Career Prospects: This program will prepare you to work as a DTP Model Maker, a Computer Graphics Designer, a Web Designer, an Illustrator, etc. Working as a Graphics Designer, either as a freelancer or an employee within an advertising agency, a design studio, or a studio within a company or a public office. After graduating from this certifed program, you will be able to conceive models and layouts, to redesign typography and logotype, to finalise printout with a good understanding of the various computer softwares and peripherals (In Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, scanners, burners, printers). You will develop the necessary skills in webdesign to build a website.

Further Education: After validation of your level-4 certified diploma in digital and print layout graphic designer, you can consider applying to a Diploma of Interactive Media Integrator, Certified Level 5 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP) or a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic and Digital Design, recognised by the FEDE (Federation for EDucation in Europe) and IDELart-culture.

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Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic & Digital Design

Certified Level 6 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP)

This Bachelor's Degree will allow you to get familiar with the numerous trades in the Graphic Design and Digital Design sectors. The program will teach you how to set up a communications strategy and how to design products on various supports and media for the graphic design, publishing and advertising sectors. All types of graphic design are included, both printed (typography, press, publishing, packaging, etc.), and digital (web, apps, motion design, etc.)

Duration of the course: Three years.

Career Prospects: This program will enable you to work as a Graphic Designer, a Web Designer, an Illustrator, a Computer Graphics Designer, a Motion Designer, etc. Working as a graphic designer, either as a freelancer or as an employee or a consultant as deputy art director for an advertising agency, a design studio, or a studio within a company or a public office.

Further education: Master’s Degree of Art Director in Graphic Design - certified as a level 7 training course by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP).

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Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design

Certified Level 6 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP)

This Bachelor's Degree will allow you to get familiar with the trades of interior designer and creator of workplaces, commercial stands and displays that promote the company's corporate identity. This program will provide you with the skills required to work in a vast array of domains : architectural space (homes, industrial, commerical, and cultural settings), urban landscaping, architectural heritage, scenography, museography, temporary spaces (fairs, exhibitions, sets, etc.).

Duration of the course: Three years.

Career Prospects: Whether as a freelancer, an employee or as a consultant for a company or an agency, graduates of this Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design will contribute to the creation of aesthetic spaces and volumes in our everyday lives. When working in a profressional organisation, they will share their expertise as a partner working for a design firm, an interior designer, a set designer assistant, a space layout consultant, or a workspace designer.

Further education: Master’s Degree of Interior Architect - Designer - certified as a level 7 training course by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP).

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Bachelor's Degree of 3D Artist (3D Animation, Video Games, VFX)

Certified by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP) with Level 6

This Bachelor's degree enables students to learn about the professions of video games and 3D animation.
3D creations are ubiquitous: advertising, web, television and film packaging, special effects (VFX) for cinema and video games, architecture and landscape.

This degree leads to opportunities in high-demand fields and a range of employment opportunities, including serious games, VR applications, phone applications, NFT, product design, architecture, real estate, motion design, advertising, video games, and animation.

Skills targeted:

  • Block 1 : Design and prototype 3D models
  • Block 2 : Structure and manage the 3D image production process
  • Block 3 : Produce all or part of a 3D work
  • Block 4 : Compose and finalize the production of a 3D work

Duration of the course: Three years.

Careers: Autograf trains specialists in 3D animation and video games, including 3D graphic artists (product designers, 3D motion designers, 3D architecture designers), character artists, environment artists, Unreal integrators, 3D animators, 3D environment artists, concept artists, etc.

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Master’s Degree of Art Director in Graphic Design

Certified level 7 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP)

The Master’s Degree of Art Director in Graphic Design - Major in Graphic Design aims at developing the creative, conceptual and graphic dimension of the student throughout several cross-curricular projects.
This program will train creative students that are able to offer and present their ideas, to assemble a team and manage it, to surround themselves with qualified professionnals in order to fulfill an assignment, and carry out a project working for an agency or as a freelancer.

Three different majors:
Major in Graphic Design
Major in Digital & Interactive Design
Major in Creative Advertising

Duration of the course: Two years

Career Prospects: Art Director in graphic design working in a communications agency, an advertising agency, or in the communications department of a company. The art director in graphic design is in charge of the visual dimension of a communications campaign and takes part to the various stages of the design, the negociations and the execution of a project. The art director conceives and manages the entire graphic design and allocates the work that needs to be carried out by the other professionals working on the project.

Master’s Degree of Interior Design Architect

Certified level 7 by the French National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP)

This master's degree will provide you with the skills you need to acquire the methodology to draw up a project in interior architecture, spatial design or scenography: carrying out the research, the analysis, the programming, drawing up technical, normative and descriptive documents. This program facilitates your integration into employment.

Possible specialisations: Interior Achitecture or Scenography

Duration of the course: Two years

Teaching language: This program is offered in French or in English.

Career Prospects: The Interior Design Architect's job is to create spaces in existing buildings. As an Interior Design Architect, you will design development projects related to household, cultural and professional human behaviours. You well get to operate in a vast array of settings such as homes, work places (services, commercial, industrial spaces), places of leisure, hospitality sector, temporary spaces (scenography, functions, fairs) and furniture design.

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Master’s Degree in Sustainable Design Management

Become a Team Manager & Supervisor in Sustainable Design.

Given the environmental crises we are facing nowadays, we ought to rethink the world we are inhabiting. Clearly, both Earth and indicators are greener when production & activity are better eco-handled.
It’s a fact – to keep our planet liveable, to avoid conflicts, limit crises and extreme disparity – we need to be more aware, thorough, altruistic, united. Also, we know that we need to find new ways to solve future issues and go beyond the classic living together speeches.
The paradigm is taking a new turn. Now, innovating scenarios blend in with society, environment and economic concerns – the 3 foundations of Sustainable Development. Eco-friendly transition is a key word in every aspects: circular economy, ecodesign, sustainable architecture, ecoresponsible agriculture, biomimicry, green technology… They all generate new creative figures and opportunities.

This Sustainable Design Management Master’s Degree is based on an educational core which stands on: understanding eco-issues at stake, giving tools for project management and being eco-design-creative.

Duration & terms of the course: This two-year course is entirely in English so that it can be accessible to an International and European audience. A field in which you need to think local and act global. Indeed, professionals and institutes dealing with environment issues are located in every region. Communicating and exchanging with these boards will require a perfect English.
This Master’s Degree is meant for undergraduate students who have already been in Arts, Design, Commerce, Management, Sciences or Engineering.

Teaching language: This program is taught in English.

By the end of the course, expertise is earned: It is a preparation for artistic, creative and collective projects management in small and medium-sized local organisations, associations or institutions. It can also apply to local or international consulting firms or Development Departments in Innovative Sustainable Management.

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