Computer Science (Media Arts and Sciences), PhD

The PhD program in computer science with a concentration in media arts and sciences emphasizes research on the integration of the human physical experience with computation and digital media. Media arts and sciences researchers produce experiential media systems and models that assist the disadvantaged, empower creativity, enhance scientific discovery, evolve human ability, facilitate learning and improve quality of life. Within these application areas, researchers explore experiential construction, interaction and feedback, knowledge creation, sensing, perception and modeling. The program's purpose is to train hybrid engineering-arts students who get their inspiration from the arts and their methodology from computer science and engineering. Students specialize in transdisciplinary media development.

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.Applicants are eligible to apply to the program if they have earned a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a closely related area. Most applicants should have earned a master's degree, but exceptional undergraduate applicants may be admitted directly into the doctoral program.Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 (scale is 4.00 = "A" in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program, or applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.