Dive Brief:
- The University of Southern California is partnering with WIRED Magazine, publisher Condé Nast, and others to create an online master’s degree program in integrated design, business, and technology.
- The goal of the degree program is “to educate creative thinkers and technologists to better equip them to transform the world of industry and enterprise,” according to the university.
- The degree will take 18 to 24 months to complete, and it will be offered starting in the fall of 2015.
Dive Insight:
WIRED’s editor-in-chief, Scott Dadich, said the new program will teach “discipline and disruption,” business fundamentals and Silicon Valley innovation models. USC now has more than 80 programs online graduate degree programs with about 8,000 students. Other partners involved with USC in the degree program are Synergis Education and Qubed Education.