The ranking of American interaction design universities is based on HCI, UX and app design in the direction of interaction design. In order to help international students who choose universities to study in the United States, let's take a look at the universities with good rankings of American interaction design undergraduate and graduate students.
Ranking in app design category of American universities
1. Parsons
Major: Design and Technology (BFA/MFA)
Parsons' interaction specialty is digital visualization, which is a MS specialty. It recommends students to handle and analyze problems with information-based and data-driven thinking, and design some skills for analysis, statistics, and mathematics. The course structure is mainly composed of two parts: data analysis+research methods, and it is required to submit code samples and text description works.
Postgraduate language requirements: IELTS: 7.0; TOEFL: 92
2. ACCD
Major: Interaction Design (BFA)
ACCD undergraduate students have set up interaction design courses, and graduate students have set up media design practice courses. In the name of practice, they pay more attention to students' hands-on ability and creative ideas, and majors include students from different backgrounds such as interaction design, product design, architecture, pure art, and video.
1) Undergraduate language requirements: IELTS: 6.5; TOEFL: 80
2) Postgraduate language requirements: IELTS: 7.0; TOEFL: 100
3. New York School of Visual Arts SVA
Major: Interaction Design (MFA)
SVA's Master of Interaction Design focuses on the fields of interaction design, design research, human-computer interaction, interface design, graphic design, information architecture and pervasive computing. It emphasizes that people should be the center and design should be used to change the existing problems faced by human beings. At the same time, students should be encouraged to participate more in practice and create more value for society in combination with business.
4. SCAD of Savannah School of Art and Design
Major: Service design (BFA/MFA)
CCA divides the interaction major into interaction design and design management. Interaction design is the same as most institutions. It focuses on the design management major. The curriculum is designed to focus on five key words (Design, Meaning, Experience, Sustainability, Business) for all-round learning.
1) Undergraduate language requirements, IELTS: 6.5; TOEFL: 80, paper TOEFL 550
2) Postgraduate language requirements; IELTS: 6.5; TOEFL: 80, paper TOEFL 550
5. California Academy of Arts CCA
Major: Interaction Design (BFA/MDes)
CCA divides the interaction major into interaction design and design management. Interaction design is the same as most institutions. It focuses on the design management major. The curriculum is designed to focus on five key words (Design, Meaning, Experience, Sustainability, Business) for all-round learning.
1) Undergraduate language requirements: IELTS: 6.5; TOEFL: 80
2) Postgraduate language requirements: IELTS: 7.0; TOEFL: 100
In HCI+UX direction, ranking of technical R&D universities:
1. Carnegie Mellon University
CMU has set up the HCI (Human Computer Interaction) specialty, which emphasizes the people-oriented research, and designs sustainable designs with technology and theory. In terms of curriculum, CMU has set up 7 professional courses and 5 elective courses in HCI specialty. Compulsory courses involve three major directions: interactive culture, software technology, and group projects.
Students' works have various forms of expression, including web pages, apps, VR projects, digital visualization, etc. In terms of employment, most of the positions are interaction designers, product designers, UX designers, UI designers. Carnegie Mellon University is difficult to apply for. In addition to professional ability, the IELTS requirement of 8.5 points also raises the admission threshold. It is worth mentioning that Kamei welcomes students who have changed their majors, and they expect students from different backgrounds to bring different surprises.
1) Undergraduate language requirements: IELTS: 7.5; TOEFL: 102
2) Postgraduate language requirements: IELTS: 8.5; TOEFL: paper TOEFL 600
2. Georgia Tech
The Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction Program is a graduate program co hosted by the Department of Design, the Department of Psychology and the School of Computer Science. Students of this program can choose Design as the concentration. In addition to the improvement of design ability, students can also accumulate psychological knowledge and computer programming by virtue of this cooperative relationship. This multidisciplinary background is very important for the interdisciplinary disciplines of interaction design and industrial design.
●BS Computational Media
●MS Human-Computer Interaction Georgia Tech Master of Human Computer Interaction Design
●MS in Digital Media
●BS/MS Digital Media Degree Program
3. University of Washington Seattle
4. Stanford University
In recent years, Stanford University has launched a new master's degree in "Design Impact", which is also an interdisciplinary graduate degree. The key point of design influencing MS is to solve problems with innovative design thinking. The course is two-year. In addition, Stanford University also offers some traditional degree courses related to human-computer interaction, including computer science.
5. MIT
Postgraduate language requirements: (only IELTS scores are accepted); IELTS: 7
At MITMediaLab, any project you design is likely to become a project of tomorrow. It has an annual fund of 30 million dollars to support the development of the laboratory, and it will receive 50 students every year, including undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students. MITMediaLab itself does not have an undergraduate degree, but MIT undergraduates have the opportunity to study.
The interactive behavior studied by MITMediaLab is a deeper category, which is about the innovative field brought by tangible atoms and invisible bits for the integration of human senses, perception and interactive technology. It has 30 courses to choose from, which has a wide range and also strengthens students' research majors. Engineering, science and arts have corresponding research courses. For example, there is a class named Engineering Health, which discusses how to quickly diagnose a prototype and establish a healthy device. This kind of profound academic inquiry runs through the learning period of academic courses.
6. University of California Berkeley
7. Tufts University
8. Rochester University of Technology
9. New York University
MediaLab provides a platform for students with different backgrounds to practice the possibility of cooperating with large companies and enterprises to achieve creation, which is not a degree project. In this system, there will be a certain amount of funds to implement projects every year. At the same time, NYU has also started to integrate digital media majors, such as ProperCourses, to give students degrees.
Interaction major only has undergraduate degree
●Bachelor of Fine Arts(BFA)degree in Interactive Media Arts(IMA)
With computer technology and digital interaction as the core.
●Computation(the ability to code, learn new software,manipulate data,and create physical)+Digital Interactions
10. University of Southern California
Interactive games lay particular emphasis on game design, but also divided into arts and science. Liberal arts tends to focus on the relationship between entertainment game industry and people's interactive behavior. Science tends to explore computer technology innovation and change the way people play games. As far as Los Angeles is concerned, a city with a developed entertainment industry, it will certainly provide many internship opportunities for USC students.
1) Undergraduate language requirements: IELTS: 7.0; TOEFL: 100
2) Postgraduate language requirements: IELTS: 7.0; TOEFL: 100
Ranking of American universities, dominated by UX, preferring interactive devices and technology applications:
1. Pratt College of Art
●BFA Digital Arts
Set up the branch of Interactive Arts. Students should not only learn computer programming technology, 3D modeling, etc., but also learn art, device images, etc., which is also a multimedia interaction driven by technology and art.
●MFA Interactive Arts
Based on the development of multiculturalism and network culture, it has cross-border integrated music, film and television, new media, sculpture, installation, network program, computer programming, virtual reality, technology (VR/AI), visual language and other interactive arts.
●MPS Design Management
Business oriented, suitable for applicants with work experience.
2. SCAD of Savannah School of Art and Design
Interactive art: interface user experience and social innovation for commercial purposes are interactive arts based on the development of diversified culture and network culture and cross-border integration of music, film and television, new media, sculpture, devices, network programs, computer programming, virtual reality, science and technology (VR, AI, etc.), visual language, etc. recommend: Apply for studying in interactive art
3. Rhode Island School of Design
No undergraduate, only graduate.
●MFA Digital Media
It is not the business purpose oriented interface user experience, social innovation service design and other contents of other colleges and universities, but, like Pratt, based on the development of multicultural and network culture, cross-border integration of music, film and television, new media, sculpture, devices, network programs, computer programming, virtual reality, technology, visual language and other interactive arts.
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