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Degree programs

We educate imaginative, knowledgeable, skilled and responsible artists, teachers and scholars through inventive courses and programs.

Areas to study

The School of Arts, Media and Engineering offers educational opportunities for undergraduate students across ASU.

Students interested in media arts and sciences are able to pursue a Bachelor of Arts, minor and certificate options. Through a collaboration with five schools and colleges across ASU, the Herberger Institute and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering have created curriculum that prepares students with both tangible skills in new media, and to be thought leaders in the digital world over the next 40 years.

We also offer a unique Media Arts and Sciences PhD program, in which students focus on translating and transporting knowledge across disciplines. This transdisciplinary degree is heavily focused on collaborative research, with courses complementing research activities.

Explore our degree options.


Media Arts and Sciences (Education)



Media Arts and Sciences (Games and Interactive Media)


digital culture minor students

Media Arts and Sciences, Minor


digital culture gear structure

Media Arts and Sciences, Certificate


media arts and sciences student

Media Arts and Sciences, PhD


media arts and sciences speaker on stage

Media Arts and Sciences, MS


student with vr

Media Arts and Sciences (Extended Reality Technologies), MS


student singing into a microphone

Media Arts and Sciences (Theatre), BA


hands adjusting dials on a piano

Media Arts and Sciences (Music), BA


student watching a presentation behind a desktop

Media Arts and Sciences (Media Processing), BS


model wearing lights

Media Arts and Sciences (Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance), BA


sound mate poster

Media Arts and Sciences (Graphic Information Technology), BA


students filming

Media Arts and Sciences (Film), BA


students looking at a laptop

Media Arts and Sciences (English), BA


students working on a desktop

Media Arts and Sciences (Design), BA


students looking at painting

Media Arts and Sciences (Art), BA


metal structure

Media Arts and Sciences, BA