Media and Interaction Design (Master's)

You will gain a highly industry-relevant educational qualification that enables you to design prototypes on new media, and evaluate the user experience of both media producers and media users. 

Key themes and issues of the study programme include: 

• What is good interactive media content? 
• What does the media of the future look like? 
• How can interaction design and technical solutions help media producers create better media content? 

Through the media, people receive information that makes it possible for them to participate in the public debate. With digital systems, we see an increased demand for new technical solutions and new formats for audience participation and user-generated content. 

The education programme will train you to identify and develop many solutions to the challenges the media face when it comes to better and more efficient workflows. 

Rather than lectures, teaching takes place through seminar groups, workshops, discussion groups and field courses. This is a full-time study programme and you should expect to participate in eight hours of organised teaching weekly, as well as additional self-study. Teaching and literature are in English. 

In the first year you will have access to a shared study room, while in the second year you can apply for a permanent study desk. All courses are compulsory, and there are mandatory work requirements related to each course. 

The programme provides its teaching in Media City Bergen, a knowledge and industry cluster where the university is co-located with media and media technology companies such as TV2, NRK, Vizrt, Bergens Tidende, Mediability and Vimond. This location gives the students a unique proximity to the media industry.

Today, most sectors are digitised and there is an increasing awareness of making digital solutions more user friendly. Being able to understand, and to create good digital solutions that match the user’s needs, are skills and knowledge that are highly attractive in the work field today. 

Some of the jobs you qualify for with this education programme: 

• Interaction Designer
• UX Designer
• Front-end Developer
• Media Entrepreneur
• Digital Media Developer

Students with citizenship from countries outside the EU/EEA/Switzerland must pay tuition fees. Some applicants may be exempted from this rule.

You have to be a EU/EEA/EFTA/Nordic citizen or reside in Norway to be able to apply. Follow these links to find the general entry requirements and guidelines:

Follow these links to find the general entry requirements and guidelines on how to apply:

Citizens from outside the European Union/EEA/EFTA (1 December)
Application procedure for students from outside EU

Citizens from within the European Union/EEA/EFTA (1 March)
Application procedure for students from EU

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in Norway (15 April)
Application procedure for students residing in Norway

All applicants with citizenship from outside the EU/EEA must pay tuition fees.

Teaching language: English

The Master’s Programme in Media and Interaction Design is a two-year full-time study that starts in August. 

First semester:

MIX301 Media Technology: Theory and Development (15 ECTS)

INFO361 Research Topics in Human-Machine Interaction (HCI) (15 ECTS)

Second semester:

MIX303 Research Design and Field Studies (15 ECTS)

MIX333 Computer game narrative (15 ECTS) 

Third and fourth semester:

MIX350 Master’s thesis (60 ECTS)

You may conduct the Master’s project in collaboration with a media or media technology company. You can contact the company yourself to arrange cooperation, but different companies will also come and present their ideas for Master's projects.

The practical work related to the Master’s project can be a prototype of a practical application, but can also be an evaluation of an interactive medium or a production study. 

See full list of courses

Not applicable. 

Graduates can also continue their education by pursuing a PhD.

Study plan for Master's Programme in Media and Interaction Design