Graduate Programs
In a world where AI and other technologies proliferate, this is the best time for advanced study to leverage such technologies for what humans excel at: creativity and communication. CAMD offers unique, flexible, interdisciplinary, and transformative creative STEM degrees at different levels: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Master of Science (MS), and certificates.
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CAMD graduate students are the next generation of professionals who will help advance our societies towards a healthier, sustainable, inclusive, and resilient future through their creativity, critical inquiry, and communication and ability to understand and leverage emerging technologies.
Casper Harteveld
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Professor
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CAMD’s graduate programs offer a unique and creative blend of disciplines designed to foster innovative thinking and equip students with practical skills and impactful knowledge. Through hands-on projects, research opportunities, and real-world experiences, graduates emerge as resourceful leaders, prepared to drive meaningful change in their careers and communities.
Miso Kim
Director of CAMD Masters Programs, Associate Professor
PhD
CAMD’s PhD in Interdisciplinary Design and Media offers an innovative, globally-aware, human-centered approach to advanced graduate study, focusing on practice-based research and scholarship applied to or conducted through making or creation. Students seek to break ground and invent new fields in this unique program.
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Architecture + Sustainability
CAMD’s NAAB-accredited Architecture program prepares graduates to lead the transformation of our built environments toward healthier, sustainable futures. Students have the unique opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary concentrations in sustainable urban environments, sustainable building systems, experience design, and more – equipping them with the knowledge and skills to bring forward-thinking, innovative ideas to life.
Degrees
Media + Innovation
CAMD’s media, communications and journalism programs prepare students to become innovative, creative leaders who are well equipped to navigate rapid changes in society. Students learn how to use, critique and build emerging storytelling tools and leverage them to explain complex topics to general audiences. Our classes are hands on and designed to foster crucial production skills while also evaluating media trends based on principles of democracy, equity and sustainability.
Degrees
Design + Technology
CAMD’s design programs are the best in the world, with unique degrees offered in experience design , information design and data visualization , game science and design, and extended realities. Our students (re)design how our world is experienced through everyday activities, data, or play.
Degrees
Games + XR
CAMD is at the forefront of emerging technologies such as games and extended realities and offers cutting-edge degrees with world-class faculty in these areas. Students can specialize in specific technologies or engage in understanding and developing such technologies more broadly.
Degrees
Art + Technology
CAMD’s artistic degrees encourage students to weave emerging technologies such as games and virtual reality into creative practices and reinvent how we work, communicate, play, and learn but also what art is and how we experience art. Students are encouraged to combine in-depth courses with breadth concentrations to innovate creative practices.
Degrees
PlusOne Pathway
The PlusOne Accelerated Master’s Pathway offers motivated Northeastern students the opportunity to start earning their master’s degree while pursuing an undergraduate education at Northeastern.
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