The BA in interactive digital media is a versatile and career-focused production-based degree program that gives students the creative problem solving skills to build a variety of interactive experiences and push web-based enterprises to the next level. Students apply user-centered design principles, professional media production techniques and web-based programming languages to develop websites, apps, interactive exhibits and casual games.
Learning Outcomes
Successful graduates of this program will be able to:
Conduct user and market research to inform proposed solutions.
Produce clear and compelling visual representations of the design and structure of interactive applications using flowcharts, wireframes and prototypes.
Program interactivity using core web languages.
Assess the effectiveness of interactive applications using data analytics, A/B testing, prototyping, and critiquing, and propose thoughtful solutions.
Demonstrate facility with multiple forms of media (graphics, audio, video, animation, photo) and their associated software.
January 2025
St. Louis Campus
470 East Lockwood Avenue,
St. Louis,
Missouri,
63119, Midwest, United States
January 2026
St. Louis Campus
470 East Lockwood Avenue,
St. Louis,
Missouri,
63119, Midwest, United States
Students must completed high school or from a home school program.
Freshman applicants are expected to complete a college preparatory secondary school program with at least 19 units of academic credit. The University strongly recommends the following distribution:
English: 4 units
History/Social studies: 3 units
Mathematics: 3 units
Foreign Language: 2 units
Science (two laboratory): 3 units
Fine Arts: 1 unit
Academic electives: 3 units
Applicants most likely to be admitted will have a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, and a class rank in the top 50 percent of their high school class, if applicable.
English language proficiency requirement:
TOEFL: iBT: 80
TOEFL: ITP: 550
IELTS: Academic: 6.0
Duolingo: 110
Pearson: 53
Cambridge Academic English: 169
Password: 6.0
GTEC: 1201
iTEP: 3.7
SAT's English-based Reading and Writing Score: 450
ACT composite score: 23
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.