48 Visual Design Masters Degree Programs

Master Houdini, Maya, and the most advanced visual effects techniques with an international master’s degree that prepares you for Hollywood, European studios, and the video game industry.

This English-taught master's degree is offered by Ca' Foscari University's EQUIS-accredited Venice School of Management in the heart of Venice, Italy. It helps students to develop strategic vision and critical analysis skills by engaging with experts, businesses, and cultural institution.

By blending creativity with cutting-edge tech, on MA Visual Effects for Live Events, you’ll gain in-demand skills in digital imagery and visual effects, opening doors to careers in virtual production, film, TV, gaming, and beyond.

The Master of Arts Degree Program in Visual and Innovation Design is a two-year artistic specialization designed to launch designers beyond the boundaries of traditional graphic design limitations. The course provides training and preparation for students to competently create visual communication, using a blend of multimedia design, visual design, and advertising skills.

The Master’s in Visual & Experience Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences (UE) Dubai prepares you to develop solutions that are both visually compelling and centered around people’s needs.

In our Visual & Experience Design master’s program, students will gain an understanding of innovations in digital, computational, and physical interactions that permeate our daily lives. All topics will be delivered in sequential clusters, allowing the students to acquire and apply theories to real contexts, as well as to envision entirely new scenarios.

Learning to do and to think: with the Master in Visual design, students learn the methodology for developing - through design - strategic and effective concepts, for composing and narrating visual stories capable of giving shape to complex communications. Experimentation in various creative areas allows for exploratory forays into differentiated fields, both commercial and cultural, from the analogue to the digital world. In addition to projects with internationally renowned professionals, students are engaged in method lessons, where they acquire more specific knowledge for research, art direction and branding.

Visual Arts & Post-Contemporary Practise is a graduation track of the Master of Arts in Fine Art & Design at Avans. In the graduation track Visual Arts, you develop practice- and process-based research with students from other disciplines. In a setting that connects cultural studies, visual and digital cultures.

The Visual Development MA program provides professional development with advanced coursework in still life painting, figure drawing, character design, concept painting, layout design for animation, and other core skills of professional visual developers.

The Visual Development MFA program provides advanced coursework in still life painting, figure drawing, character design, concept painting, layout design for animation, and other core skills of professional visual developers. The goal of each graduate student is the completion of a signature thesis book showcasing design work for a story-based project.

MSc in Creative Music and Sound Design for Visual Media Scoring. Writing music for films and visual media is an inspiring and exciting field, giving free expression to your ideas and emotions. It is, however, a very demanding job, requiring specific technical skills and expertise, which you must acquire through a solid education. The MSc in Music Scoring for Visual Media and Sound Design offers a national and international advanced education of excellence that will develop your craft and art of composing, orchestrating, editingWriting music for films and visual media is an inspiring and exciting field, giving free expression to your ideas and emotions. It is, however, a very demanding job, requiring specific technical skills and expertise, which you must acquire through a solid education. The MSc in Music Scoring for Visual Media and Sound Design offers a national and international advanced education of excellence that will develop your craft and art of composing, orchestrating, editing and mixing music for the screen. Our program will equip you with the skills to master the entire music production process, from musical composing to post-production, in the music-for-media landscape: film, advertising, television series, video games, and so forth. You will hone your skills in composition, orchestration, sound design, creative management, artistic entrepreneurship, and finally post-production on the Dolby Atmos spatial sound system, with the benefit of a partnership with DOLBY (website). At the end of each year, you will have the opportunity to record your own creation with a full orchestra, thanks to a unique partnership with the prestigious Orchestre National de Cannes (website), recognized as a National Orchestra in 2022. and mixing music for the screen.

Learn how to select and use the best visual communication tools and techniques with our Master's Course in Graphic Design - Focus on New Media at IED Firenze

By fully understanding the importance of the user experience and the various aspects of digital design, your work can fuel technological innovation.

The Material and Visual Culture MA is designed for those interested in understanding how objects, images, and spaces shape our world. The program covers a wide range of topics, including art, design, archaeology, and material history. Students explor…

The Art and Visual Culture MA is part of the Cultural and Literary Studies Suite, a cluster of four MAs that bring together academics, curators and practitioners who share a commitment to investigating modern and contemporary culture from aesthetic, critical, literary, and experiential perspectives. You'll share classes with students from the Cultural and Critical Studies MA, the English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions MA, and the Museum, Galleries and Contemporary Culture MA, joining a fruitful and intellectually-rigorous environment designed to facilitate the sprouting of interdisciplinary thinking. As part of our Suite, you may also choose an option module from the other three MA programmes (what is referred to as an ‘elective’ module), a fantastic opportunity to explore a facet of culture outside of your chosen MA programme. The Art and Visual Culture MA is an interdisciplinary, visual theory-based course established around the belief that visual literacy and the impact of visual forms of thinking and working play significant roles in our society. In the course, we interrogate visual perception and representation in high and popular culture, explore how these produce meanings, and how such meanings shape societies and individuals.

The Master of Arts (MA) in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) is a two-year, English language program intended to develop a student’s independent practice and define their position as a graphic designer.

This Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Environments is composed of four interrelated thematic modules that deal with the disciplines and themes of visual culture; art and new media; real-time video; off-screen audiovisual; motion graphics; generative graphics; physical interaction design; tangible interaction; interaction systems design; interactive narrative; generative audio; musical composition and sound design; electronic prototyping; the design, control, and simulation of light; digital manufacturing; wearables; virtual reality; mathematics and physics for audiovisual.

The Master’s degree in Data Visualization Management is a specialized program in collaboration with Camilo Jose Cela University. This program focuses on the effective presentation and communication of data through visual means. This field combines elements of data analysis, graphic design, and information technology to create informative visual representations of data.