Georgia Tech's MS in Digital Media (DM) is a graduate program of humanities-based professional education for the digital age. MS DM students follow a studio- and seminar-based curriculum that places digital design within technical, cultural, aesthetic, and historical contexts. The program rests on the assumption that digital media belong to an historical, aesthetic, and conceptual continuum whose legacy and future must be addressed in order to understand the digital artifact in its own right.

Georgia Tech's MS DM program is helping to establish the standard for professional education in information design and to raise the level of professional practice. It is aimed at providing a principled-based education that will guide its graduates over the course of their careers in a rapidly changing technical environment.

Because of its technical and disciplinary diversity, the MS DM program can offer students both the practical skills and the theoretical foundation they need to assume leadership roles as designers, producers, and critical analysts of digital media. Graduates of the program pursue careers in commerce, entertainment, art, and education with a variety of national and international organizations. Some go on to PhD work in computer science or the humanities.

The MS DM program accepts roughly twenty-five full-time students each fall term. MS DM students come from a range of educational backgrounds and have diverse intellectual and creative objectives. Most have significant work experience in a professional field. Students come with academic backgrounds from such fields as acting, anthropology, architecture, communications, computer science, engineering, English studies, graphic design, history, journalism, law, library science, management, marketing, philosophy, social work, software development, technical writing, and television production. The program welcomes a socially diverse and international student body.