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Digital Media and Digital Media Connect

Whether you’re looking to advance your current career or break into the digital media field, Northeastern’s Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Digital Media and MPS in Digital Media Connect provide classroom training and real-world opportunities to let your creativity thrive.

We offer two options to earn your degree:

  • The MPS in Digital Media is designed for professionals already in the digital media industry.
  • The MPS in Digital Media Connect is for students without a digital media background looking to break into the industry.

You can earn your degree as a full-time or part-time student while building meaningful working relationships with students and employers from around the globe.

Domestic Canadian students that start their on-ground programs in Fall 2025 at the Vancouver campus may be eligible for scholarships of up to 50%. Please note that scholarship eligibility is subject to verification, restrictions may apply.

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"I never thought I could do a lot of things that the program really challenged me to do. It was great to have the experience of really being pushed by professors, and by my classmates, to just learn something new." —Rachel Newborn, MPS in Digital Media '18

MPS in Digital Media

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Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media

Take your existing professional experience and knowledge and enhance it by mastering industry-standard and cutting-edge technologies and tools.

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Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media Connect

Designed for students without prior digital media experience, our Connect program covers core concepts in visual communications, programming foundations, and web creation.

Studying in Vancouver

  • Study in one of Canada’s leading cities for technology and innovation.
  • Become part of Vancouver’s explosive growth, with nearly one million new jobs expected in the province by 2033 (B.C.’s Labour Market Outlook, 2023).
  • Network throughout Vancouver’s thriving film, television, and media industry.
  • Live and work in a safe, diverse city filled with natural beauty.
  • Campus resources and student services support staff are available to help you from application through graduation.

About Northeastern University

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.




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