Overview

Communication, Media, and Design from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute prepares graduates to communicate creatively across diverse multimedia and multicultural contexts. The program is geared toward students interested in literature, strategic and creative writing, media and communication studies, and graphic, interactive, and mixed-reality design.

Key Facts

The curriculum is designed to train versatile and professional communicators across a range of media literacies, genres, and formats. Graduates of this program bring important skills to the job market. In today’s networked world, strategic communication, media literacies, and design thinking foster excellence, innovation, and social change.

Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this program will be able to demonstrate an ability to:

Communicate strategically and creatively in oral, visual, and textual formats across professional, academic, and artistic contexts.

Explain the mutual ways society, culture, and technology influence each other, as demonstrated by their critical analyses of specific media products.

Explain how mass media and new technologies shape communication and design choices.

Analyze audience, purpose, content, and genre in order to communicate effectively.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Critical Media Studies: Television, Film, and online platforms

Immersive Games and Pedagogy

Multimodal and Embodied Communication

Data Visualization

Cross-Cultural Communication, Ethnography, Sociolinguistics

Creative and Strategic Writing

Graphic Design

Human-Centered Design

Digital Rhetoric

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-28 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Troy, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

High School Transcript

Letter of Recommendation

Test Scores

Essay

Application Fee

Portfolio (if required)

Early Decision Agreement Form (if required)

Requirements for International Students

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

64400 USD / year

≈ 64400 USD / year
Out-of-State

64400 USD / year

≈ 64400 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

64400 USD / year

≈ 64400 USD / year

Living costs

Troy

United States

958 - 2088 USD / month

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

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Key Facts

Outcomes

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

English requirements

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General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

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Living costs

Troy

Funding

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