Overview

Work in digital media focuses on a broad range of current and emerging forms of digitally supported media, with applications that range from computer games to interactive art.

Course Details

Under close mentorship of faculty supervisors students may collaborate on artistic, technical, and/or theoretical projects such as the design and construction of interactive art and immersive environments; the implementation of participatory design, maker methods, physical computing, digital fabrication, wearable computing, and creative coding for the creation of novel digital forms; the expansion of procedural poetics into emerging virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality media; the application of expertise in audio-visual signal processing, vision science, machine learning, AI, and robotics toward new conceptions of responsive living environments; and other project–based research that integrates scientific investigation and creative expression into new critically computational futures.

Career Opportunities

The digital sector increasingly seeks those trained with highly specialized technical, scientific and creative capacities in emerging media to function in dynamic team-based environments. The Digital Media MA/MSc program at York University is designed to foster this next-generation with sophisticated understanding of computational digital media that conjoins capacity in STEM skills with creativity. Graduates will be capable of working in flexible environments and responding to the changing needs of digital media cultures and industries, as agile technical consultants, innovative engineers, groundbreaking creatives, and independent artists. These will integrate critical artistic discourse and scientific inquiry with broad application to creative industries such as immersive gaming, mixed reality, distributed performance, data visualization, live coding, wearable computing, and intelligent environments.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Computer Games
Interactive Art
Computational Science
Digital Media

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 30 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-06 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-15 00:00:00 , National
- Apply before 2025-12-15 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

IELTS

7

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PTE Academic

67

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TOEFL^® IBT

90

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130

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Credits

60 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Toronto, Canada

Disciplines

Digital Media View 21 other Masters in Digital Media in Canada

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Academic requirements

GPA

B

English requirements

IELTS

7

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PTE Academic

67

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TOEFL^® IBT

90

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Duolingo English Test

130

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Other requirements

General requirements

Application Form
Recommendation Form and
Supplementary Information Form
2 letters of recommendation
Statement of Interest letter
Curriculum vitae
Portfolio (4-6 pieces)

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Tuition Fee

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International

12550 CAD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 6275 CAD per semester during 30 months.
National

2870 CAD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 1435 CAD per semester during 30 months.

Living costs for Toronto

1502 - 2563 CAD /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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