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Our mission is to provide students with both an abiding conceptual framework and a mastery of practical skills in design and media art through engagement with emerging techniques and technologies—and a commitment to the highest level of craft.

Featured Undergrad Programs

Learn how design thinking shapes our lives, from video games to architecture, with an undergraduate degree in Art + Design.

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Experience Design, BFA

Experience designers take a holistic and integrative approach that focuses on the quality of the human experience in concrete situations.

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Combined Major

Media Arts and Computer Science, BS

The computer science and media arts combined major is ideal for creative students who love technology. You’ll acquire a solid foundation in both fields through curriculum that spans photography, animation, video, database design, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.

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Game Design, BFA

Focusing on the creative side of game development, the BFA in Game Design aims to transform students into critical makers with the ability to create high-quality, innovative, and expressive games, playful experiences, and artifacts across a broad array of media and contexts.

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Combined Major

Interaction Design and Journalism, BS

Students in this combined major in journalism and interaction design at Northeastern integrate the study of journalism with the study of art and design to inform the reporting of critical and complex stories through the design of data visualizations, messages, interactions and experiences.

Featured Graduate Programs

Combining technology and design principles, our graduate programs give students the tools to address today's global challenges and tomorrow's big ideas.

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Information Design and Data Visualization, MS or MfA

This program uniquely combines analytical methods with distinctive training in visual communication. Successful graduates gain expertise in the visual and technological languages of data, applying modes of visual cognition and using analytics tools to create interactive, data-driven communication and installations.

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Game Science and Design, MS

Focusing on the science of game development, students have an opportunity to learn the design and technological skills needed to build a game and develop a deep understanding of playability and analytics that make products successful in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

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Experience Design, MFA or MS

Experience Design prepares students to become vital contributors and leaders of professional experience design teams where technological innovation intersects with design. Successful graduates will be able to analyze how people undergo real-world situations and orchestrate new design-driven relationships.

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PlusOne Pathway

The PlusOne program at Northeastern is an opportunity for qualified students to take graduate level coursework while still completing a bachelor’s degree. Students can receive their graduate degree up to one year sooner than they would in a traditional master’s program.

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Portfolio Submission

Submitting creative work for admission to CAMD is optional but encouraged. See what an Art + Design portfolio should include.

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