Learn to lead change through media and innovation
Media and Innovation Programs
Turn your creativity and your desire to advocate for change into a transformative, cutting-edge degree program. Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design offers four media and innovation programs that give you the advanced multimedia skills needed to bridge cultural, political, social, and economic spheres of influence:
- Master of Science in Media Advocacy
- Master of Science in Media Innovation and Data Communication
- Master of Science in Media, Technology and Ethics
- Master of Arts in Journalism
Each of these programs offers you an opportunity to learn how to use visual, textual, and audio formats to create data-driven stories while examining the role of media technologies in both knowledge production and societal change.
With these tools, the stories you tell will be more impactful than ever. You'll learn to interpret complex concepts, make informed decisions, and navigate social challenges more easily as you:
- Gain strategic advocacy skills that can help you communicate with a wide array of industries.
- Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to apply research-driven strategic communication techniques and multimedia skills in diverse formats.
- Learn how to advocate for organizations, ideas, and initiatives.
- Address the ethical, communication, and political issues raised by data-driven technologies.
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Which program is right for you?
MS in Media Advocacy
Learn to lead mission-advancing efforts with strategic, research-backed communication techniques and multimedia skills. You’ll be able to specialize your studies in civil rights, environmental policy, experience design, and more.
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.