The career paths into UX are many and varied.
As we’ve mentioned before, the academic path—while not the only option—is a legitimate path to follow, whether you complete a tertiary degree at a Bachelors, Masters, Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma level.
Unfortunately, User Experience as a discipline is not yet well-established in many universities, although it is increasing in credibility. However, there are quite a few other related fields that you can study at a tertiary level: Interaction Design, HCI, Product Design, Information Architecture, Digital Design, Interactive Arts, and others …
Enter our comprehensive list of UX Degrees.
Our UX Degrees resource is a global list of tertiary education degrees currently being offered in these fields. You can enter keywords into the text field to filter courses, or sort by country, city, institution, or course name.
- View the big list of UX Degrees
Let us know if you are aware of any others—we are keen to keep this list as up-to-date and comprehensive as possible!
Awesome and super-useful list. Thank you so much. Also, University of Twente (The Netherlands) has a great master on Human Media Interaction.
Thanks Ligia, for both the kind comment and the hot tip! I will take a look at the degree and update the list this afternoon. Kim
University of Dundee has:
– a BSc in Digital Interaction Design http://www.dundee.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/digital_interaction_design.htm
– a MSc in Computing Research
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/computing_research_msc.htm
– a MSc in Design Ethnography
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/design_ethnography_msc.htm
and
– a MDes in Design for Services
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/design_for_services_mdes.htm