A pioneering graduate center for the study and design of new communications media forms and applications, ITP is internationally recognized as a unique and vital contributor of new ideas and talented individuals to the emerging professional world of multimedia and telecommunications. The program is guided by a hands-on approach to learning that relies on collaboration rather than competition in an environment where exploration, analysis, risk and failure can freely occur. Emphasizing the user's creativity rather than the machine, the program challenges students to combine ideas and the tools of computers, video, sound, graphics, animation, and text in new and imaginative ways. 115 students are accepted each year into the two-year program, which leads to a Master of Professional Studies degree.
Graduate students come from a rich mix of disciplines, cultures and experiences.
They enter with backgrounds in such diverse fields as music composition, sculpture, writing, biology, library science, law, cultural theory, architecture, dance and computer science. Men and women are equally represented, as are cultures from Eastern Europe to East Asia, from South America to Canada and several regions of the United States. At ITP, we have set up an environment that welcomes risk-taking as a means of testing new ideas. It is an exciting place - a place for a diverse mix of students to think about, create and imagine the options available in this whole new world of digital technology.