Shake up the digital-media landscape and be at the forefront of this rapidly moving global industry with Master of Digital Media.

Advance your career options as a digital media professional or learn how to implement digital transformations in your current industry.

VU’s Master of Digital Media is designed for a future-focused professional with an entrepreneurial spirit.

This course, informed by an advisory panel of prominent practitioners from industry and government, offers key insights into the very latest industry practices and processes.

Through our flexible and regularly updated curriculum, you’ll learn the skills to excel in:

• user experience (UX) design
• game production
• search engine optimisation
• content production and strategy
• visualisations of data
• social network and web analytics
• design research.

To be considered for postgraduate study, you will need to have specific academic qualifications, as outlined below. We also consider non-academic research and work experience for our research candidates.

Admission criteria

Completion of an Australian Bachelor degree (or equivalent) in any discipline OR Completion of an Australian Graduate Diploma (or equivalent) in a similar discipline PLUS IELTS (or equivalent): Overall score of 6.5 (with no band less than 6.0 in Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking)

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Plan and execute substantial digital media projects, including visual and audio design elements, motion graphics and animation, for a range of professional contexts
2. Propose and critique processes for digital media transformation
3. Analyse and interpret a range of data sources to assess and critically review projects and understand a context
4. Apply digital media industry project management processes with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability
5. Advocate and adjudicate solutions for working with others, as a leader or a team, to implement co-design and co-creation tools
6. Communicate the potential and shortcomings of technology to justify and interpret practical and theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to a range of audiences.

This course prepares students for work in a diverse range of fields and could lead to a career in:

• digital media 'all rounder'
• UX (user experience) practitioner
• digital media producer
• digital marketing manager
• e-learning designer
• mobile and web designer
• digital media strategist
• social media strategy and analyst
• cross-media practitioner.