[4] 2011 UID was ranked as the second-best design education in the region "Europa & the Americas" by Red Dot Institute[5] and 2012 UID advanced to first place.

[7][8] The internationally acclaimed SVT - Sveriges Television documentary All The World in a Design School by documentary filmmaker Mattias Löw from 2015 follows a group of international industrial design students at Umeå Institute of Design during a study year.

The Institute offers a three-year industrial design programme leading to a Bachelor's degree (180 credits).

(only in Swedish) There are three internationally oriented and specialised two-year programmes leading to a Master's degree (120 credits).

Two full-time, one-year courses are offered at UID are under the supervisor of Catharina Henje, both given in English.