Turn Complex Information Into Visual Narratives
MICA’s online Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Data Visualization and Communication helps creative professionals transform data into compelling visual narratives through design, analytics, storytelling, and emerging media. Choose from four specialized tracks and develop professional-ready work in a flexible online format. This flexible data visualization master’s degree prepares students to create impactful visual communication across industries.
MICA’s MPS in Data Visualization and Communication prepares creative professionals to communicate complex ideas through visual storytelling, design systems, analytics, motion, and immersive experiences. Unlike traditional data analytics and visualization master’s programs, the curriculum emphasizes audience-centered communication, design thinking, and creative strategy.
Designed for working professionals, the program supports students who are looking to expand their creative practice while building specialized skills in data communication, audience engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
MICA’s online format allows students to continue working while earning a graduate degree designed around creative and professional growth. The program is designed for creative professionals who want flexibility without sacrificing mentorship, rigor, or community.
Study from anywhere with flexible online learning designed for working professionals.
Collaborative, project-based learning
Complete in as few as 18 months
Focused curriculum for practical application.
Competitive tuition for a professional master's degree program.
*Books and materials fees are not included. Tuition and fees are subject to change.
Customize your graduate experience through one of four focused pathways designed to support a range of creative and professional goals.
Translate analytical insights into clear, persuasive visual communication for business, research, and policy contexts within today’s evolving data visualization degree programs landscape. Students build skills in data wrangling, visualization systems, and audience-centered communication.
Explore how typography, visual hierarchy, narrative systems, and data journalism shape the way audiences interpret information. This track bridges data visualization with communication strategy and editorial storytelling, making it ideal for students interested in communication design master’s degree pathways and visual narrative development.
Create interactive and time-based visualization experiences through motion graphics, animation, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality and immersive storytelling. Students explore emerging technologies and dynamic visual communication formats.
Learn to communicate scientific, medical, and public health information through accessible, audience-centered visual communication. This track focuses on clarity, ethics, and communication strategy across complex subject matter.
The curriculum blends analytical thinking, visual communication, and professional practice to prepare students for evolving creative and communication-focused roles across various industries. Students in this online master’s in data analytics and visualization-focused program develop both technical fluency and communication expertise.
Develop analytical foundations in data literacy, interpretation, statistical reasoning, and responsible use of AI-supported tools.
Learn visual communication principles including typography, hierarchy, color theory, interaction design, and narrative systems that transform raw information into meaningful experiences.
Strengthen collaboration, project management, portfolio development, ethical decision-making, and communication skills needed for professional creative environments.
Throughout the program, students create professional-quality visualization projects that reflect real-world communication challenges and creative workflows.
Coursework emphasizes:
In the final capstone experience, students create an original visualization project with faculty mentorship and present a polished professional portfolio to faculty and practitioner reviewers.
This program is ideal for professionals working across creative, communication, research, and strategy-focused fields who want to deepen their ability to communicate complex ideas visually through a contemporary data visualization degree.
Students may come from backgrounds including:
Whether you want to move into a more strategic role, strengthen your visualization skills, or explore emerging forms of communication, the program supports creative professionals seeking meaningful, future-focused work.
Learn to transform data, research, and complex ideas into compelling visual narratives through design, storytelling, and emerging media in MICA’s online data visualization master’s program.
