Students are exposed to the fields of User Experience Design (UX), Visual Communication, Typography, Print Media, Interaction Design (UI), Film Making, New Media and Gaming. The electives offered in the stream help students realize the complexities of visual language, aesthetics, and usability.

A strong component of Social Sciences and Management studies embedded in the form of elective courses further strengthen the communication design curriculum. Students extensively use the Media Technology Centre, which houses state of the art infrastructure to facilitate media research and aims to provide a meaningful platform for the students of the Design Programme to foster their creative potentials and merge it with their gradual process of acquiring and exchanging knowledge with technology based education at the institute.