Transform your media innovation ideas into action—from creating the next game-changing app to leading content development for streaming services. Become a major player in the business side of the media and entertainment industry, whether you choose streaming, social media, advertising, journalism, podcasting, marketing, AI, VR or the next big thing.

  • Spend fall semester in Boston, a hub for start-ups and venture capital, and the spring and summer semesters in Los Angeles, the world capital for entertainment media
  • 2 internships, 1 big break
  • 11-month entertainment industry degree program
  • No GRE required
  • Merit scholarships awarded to 80% of students as part of admission process
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Media Innovation and Entertainment Industry Degree Outcomes

In MS in Media Ventures, you learn how the entertainment and digital media industry works from the inside out. Our alumni work in global leadership, creative and entrepreneurial roles in media, tech, games and entertainment—Hulu, Apple, Netflix, YouTube, Lionsgate, Bloomberg, Twitter, Miramax, Google, Whip Media, AmazeVR, Sony and more. The culmination of this entertainment industry degree, their Pitchfest presentations have ranged from a new web platform described as “Buzzfeed specifically for Black womxn” to an extension for Apple Music that would allow DJs to remix, record and publish their music.

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See Yourself Pitching to Industry Execs

“Pitchfest [through the MS in Media Ventures] provides our students the rare opportunity to show their best work to major industry executives who generously offer feedback and guidance as our students take their next professional steps. These presentations have led to many jobs for our alums in innovative media companies.”

—Cathy Perron, Professor Emerita, Film & Television
MS in Media Ventures program creator