Interactive Media: Your Passion, Your Career
Customize your graduate learning experience and fully explore your passion for interactive media with our innovative studio-based curriculum. You’ll gain hands-on experience and follow your own vision to design and develop publishable titles and lead your own studio team.
The Becker School of Design & Technology at Clark enables students to participate in leading-edge studies in a master of fine arts program in interactive media design currently ranked by The Princeton Review as No. 5 in the world.
Our program prepares students for careers in the highly competitive and ever-changing fields of game development and interactive media or a career path in higher education, teaching, and research.
Our flexible MFA program curriculum allows you the opportunity to master the tools, theory, and practice associated with your chosen area of interest. Add to your existing portfolio, grow your professional networks, and expand the depth of your knowledge in interactive media, game development, and user experience design.
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Major industries in the United States seek candidates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees. When you graduate with a STEM-designated degree such as the master of fine arts in interactive media, you may be eligible for an extended Optional Practical Training (OPT) for up to 36 months.
Why a Master of Fine Arts in Interactive Media at Clark University?
- Our MFA game design program is currently ranked No. 5 in the world by The Princeton Review. U.S. News and World Report has called our program “a destination for game designers.”
- Benefit from studio experiences and industry/education partnerships that drive entrepreneurship, academic collaboration, and economic improvement across the digital and video game industries.
- Our passionate team of stellar faculty and successful graduates are connected to industry leaders and employers, creating pipelines for landing internships and career opportunities.
- Gain access to state-of-the art VR/AR and PC labs and industry-standard software.
- Focus on the creation of your own art — games, apps, interactive content, and more — to maintain and present an industry-standard portfolio of projects.
- Immerse yourself in a community of students who thrive on learning, creative expression, and the energy of collaborative innovation.
Student spotlight“The MFA program allowed me the time and freedom to fully explore my creativity. I enjoyed the flexible class schedule because I worked toward my degree and developed my passion project while still having a full-time job. I also loved the access to labs and new technology on campus. The faculty are great; they are really invested in the success of the students.
—Matt Hopkins, MFA ’20
Student Work
The master of fine arts in interactive media curriculum requires 15 one-unit courses. Our flexible curriculum ensures that the main focus is on your project. All MFA students are required to complete a project of their own design in each year of study that will be published or exhibited prior to graduation.
Through interdisciplinary courses, seminars, and studio work, you have the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions, writings, readings, oral presentations, guided research, and other academic activities related to your studio concentration. In your second year (8-plus units), you can run your own studio of undergraduate students while earning valuable leadership and communication skills, and project management experience.
15 Total Course Units – a combination of Graduate Seminar, Studio Development, Praxis, and Thesis, will provide students the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to create new and innovative projects.
For game students, internship and career opportunities are ever-expanding. Strong consumer demand for video games and other interactive media in most sectors creates robust career opportunities not only in what is traditionally referred to as game design, but also in the related areas of data translation and user experience.
Careers for our graduates include:
- Game designer
- 3D artist
- Concept artist
- Creative director
- Senior producer
- Software engineer
- Game programmer
- UI/UX designer
- Interactive media artist
- Multimedia designer
- Web/mobile app developer
- Indie developer
- Sound designer/composer
- Digital content specialist
- College professor/lecturer
You will significantly advance your portfolio, expand the breadth and depth of your knowledge of interactive media arts, and grow your network of colleagues through dialogue, critique, collaboration, and exhibition. Through peer review, critique, faculty guidance, and critical discourse, you can further enhance and prepare your studio work and thesis research, culminating in a presentation and exhibition at the end of the academic year.
Academic Excellence. Global Reach. Career Success.
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