This innovative programme offers the best of studio-based design learning and provides opportunities for you to develop skills and insights in the creative use of design practices and technologies for digital media across a range of uses and platforms.

You will:

• acquire wide skills in creative digital techniques
• investigate practice contexts for application across the arts, entertainment, performance and industry
• probe the social, cultural and commercial implications of such developments
• work together, and with colleagues across the world on the online counterpart of this programme, to realise imaginative design outcomes.

Digital media technology is at the heart of modern life. At work, in education, in leisure and entertainment, even in sport, digital tools and devices are everywhere. How we communicate, our social life, the core of our society, is now based on digital media.

Design also continually shapes contemporary experience. The products and services we use, the environment we inhabit, the information we use, or are presented with, are all designed with specific intent. Things that are not themselves digital are commonly designed digitally.

Digital design requires a multi-perspective approach to developing media and interactive experiences, and this programme deals with the complex relationships between design and digital media.

Our programme is practice-led and there are significant demands on our students to create innovative design for, and with, digital media and technologies across a range of creative contexts that can include:

• visual design
• user interface design
• user experience design
• interactive media
• mobile web applications
• animation
• game design
• augmented reality
• virtual environments

To find out more about this course, visit our Degree Finder: Design and Digital Media.

Prospects for employment are diverse. During this programme, students create project work that may include:

• integrated elements of graphic design and three-dimensional modelling
• interactive and immersive media
• moving image and animation
• user interfaces and user experience
• augmented and virtual reality
• web and mobile applications
• creative coding
• data visualisations
• digital art installations

Our graduates work in all these areas, as well as:

• advertising
• education
• journalism

The programme’s critical and reflective framework is also ideal if you are considering continuing to advanced research at a doctoral level.

If you'd like to study on a postgraduate programme at Edinburgh College of Art, you must apply through EUCLID, our online application system. You can find out how to do this on the University of Edinburgh website, where you'll also be able to:

• see detailed entrance requirements for each programme on the Degree Finder
• get information on what to expect after you apply
• find out about study modes, start dates and fees
• find out if, and how, you need to submit a portfolio, showreel or research proposal
• find out where to go for further advice and guidance.