Improve the human experience through design
Design and Technology Programs
Get the skills you need to create more impactful designs through technology, creativity, and critical thinking. Northeastern University’s design and technology degrees can help you not only get ahead in your career, but also make an impact on today’s social issues.
Our programs include:
- Master of Fine Arts or Master of Science in Experience Design
- Master of Fine Arts or Master of Science in Information Design and Data Visualization
- Master of Science in Game Science and Design
- Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media or Digital Media—Connect
- Master of Science in Extended Realities
Each of these programs offers you an opportunity to use investigation, analysis, creativity, and technology to understand and design for human goals, needs, and desires.
With these tools, you’ll be able to weave science and design together to make an impact. You'll also learn to lead professional design teams where innovation and design intersect as you examine how people behave in real contexts relative to emerging technologies and take a holistic, integrative, design-thinking, and research-driven approach to design that addresses societal issues.
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Which program is right for you?
MFA and MS in Experience Design
Combine theory and studio- or project-based practice in an exploration of research-driven design thinking for entrepreneurship and innovation, and develop professional skills in design principles as you prepare for academia or professional roles.
These programs are offered in Boston.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.