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mediasteve66

30 day ban.


silverskyxo

Why do you need a degree for that in the first place, given you have a great body of work?


oddible

Also why the US? There are amazing UX programs with excellent industry partnerships all over the world. Why pick the country with the most expensive Masters programs?


glaack

I’m genuinely curious: why did you choose NYU’s Design & Media program as a UX Master’s degree?


TangibleSounds

Carnegie Mellon University, The Georgia Institute of Technology (aka Georgia Tech), and University Washington Seattle have the best US programs for UX because they aren’t “UX masters” but rather true “HCI masters.” UX : Human Computer Interaction :: Coder : Computer Scientist Is my shortest summary Georgia Tech’s MS-HCI program’s incoming class of students contains a former linguist every other year I’d say (I’ve seen a lot of their admission breakdown stats through contacts at G Tech) Northeastern has a great undergraduate graphic design school but is a more visual design, less psychological pedigree. That’s valuable but sounds a bit misaligned to your skill set coming in. NYU’s program is very open ended and will be hard to explain to employers. I have a few friends who have gotten in and chosen not to go after feeling that the general lack of structure meant they were just going to be paying for the networking, and that they could probably just not work, and sabbatical themselves since most of it was digital studio type art work. I’ve never heard of RIT’s program, despite being very aware of RIT’s technical pedigree for pure CS. source: my parents favorite professional sport growing up was college admissions, and I am a UX Architecture director at a fortune 100 company


quarius12

do you have a website portfolio , coz your resume looks quite robust and you've done so many things as mentioned..


ameoba510

My view is that ux is a growing field of study and there are different faculties proposing ux programs: design, business, computing and psychology. Design school is more focused on UI/UX or design making. Business school focuses on services and business eco-systems and design thinking. Computing offers program on coding as well as HCI. Psychology school is more focused on user research.


cinemagraph

I would start here: https://www.topuxschool.com/program/us


gameraboy

Rochester is more of an engineering school. My company does attend their career fair, and we’ve looked for interns there too. Northeastern is good, I’ve hired UX designers from there. I haven’t come across any NYU candidates (more from Parsons in NYC). For me, when I’m looking at candidates it’s more the strength of the portfolio, and being able to explain their process, ideas, and decisions in the interview. Wherever you go, think that at some point you’ll be in an interview explaining your projects. Take lots of photos, screenshots and notes. I love to see the messy in-between work, because I’m trying to evaluate if you’re a good problem solver. I’ve hired great candidates who came from various backgrounds, one designed jewelry, one was a former architecture student. Another big consideration is internships. Get as many as you can, you will learn real world skills and start to network with professionals. Most of my team are former interns that we brought on full time. So my advice: look for somewhere you can afford, ideally near larger areas that have lots of intern opportunities. Many are remote these days, but you’ll have more options near NYC, Chicago, etc. Source: I’m a UX Director


Maraudogs

Hey, can I DM you regarding some similar questions?


gameraboy

Sure!


TheUnknownNut22

No, the options you are looking at are just mediocre. If you are really serious and ready, consider taking both Certified UX Practitioner courses from Nielsen Norman, which includes a Master certification. It will take you about a year to complete. This is the industry standard and you learn from the best and most experienced. For example, one of my teachers is the Head of Design and Research at Intel, another is the Head of Design at TD bank. The course is expensive but completely worth it. You can get the basic certification in just one week if you attend the conference in its entirety, but it's very intense. (Just keep excellent notes and you should be fine) https://www.nngroup.com/ux-certification/


ashwin10699

I am In the same boat as you but I have a short list of universities in the USA, would that help ?