Master of Digital Media

Advance your career options as a digital media professional or learn how to implement innovative 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 & strategy
• visualisations of data
• social network and web analytics
• design research.

You'll also graduate with an impressive portfolio of UX and human-centred design research methodology examples.

Upon completion you'll be ready to work as a digital media strategist, web designer or cross-media practitioner - making you absolutely indispensable in this global, progressive sector.

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.

• Check the average salary and predicted growth for multimedia specialists and web developers in Australia at Labour Market Insights.
• Check the average salary and predicted growth for graphic and web designers at Labour Market Insights.

To attain the Master of Digital Media students will be required to complete 192 credit points consisting of:

Option A
156 credit points of Core Studies
36 credit points of Elective Studies.
OR
Option B
168 credit points of Core Studies24 credit points of Elective Studies

Use our credit calculator to find out how much credit you could get towards your course, based on your previous study.

If you have completed study with another university or institution and believe you are eligible to receive credit for skills and past study, you can apply for advanced standing.

Applications for advanced standing can be made after a discussion with your course chair or academic adviser.

Before applying, you should consider whether you also want to apply for:

• Special admission programs: Depending on your life circumstances you may be eligible for special consideration of your application.
• Advanced standing: If you have significant experience or studies elsewhere you may be eligible for credit for some units of your course and not have to undertake them.

Find out more about applying for our courses.