'Game Changer': IYA Alum Turned PhD Explores the Influence of Video Games

In Search of Community: An Unconventional Thinker Founds a Space for Creatives

Devoted to Data: Mastering the Art of Visualization

How Can You Combat Climage Change Today? IYA Alums Make It Easier

IYA Student Startup Wins Min Family Challenge Grand Prize

Achieving Algorithmic Justice Through Inclusive Design

Grad Student's 'Pet' Project Sparks IYA Journey

IYA Grad Student and Football Player Fights On For Student-Athlete Mental Health

Finding Purpose in Repurpose: An Alum Gives Foam a Second Life

Transforming the Way Content Creators Do Business

Advocating For Change All the Way to Paris Fashion Week

To the Moon and Back: AR meets Space Exploration

Defying Gravity: A Student's Zero-G Flight of a Lifetime

Viral Virtuoso: How This Social Media Maven Shares Trends at YouTube and Behond

A Grad Student Explores the Creative Side of Engineering

An Artist Grows Up (and Her Art Grows With Her)

ARTS, TECHNOLOGY AND
THE BUSINESS OF INNOVATION

At the Academy, it’s not only what you know, it’s also how you think. Our students seek a different style of education that empowers the creative spirit and leads to unprecedented combinations of knowledge and skill and builds innovation capacity. Discarding any remnants of the traditional ‘one size fits all’ program, each Academy degree facilitates an individual’s ability to engage differently and successfully with a dramatically changing, tech-driven global marketplace, and to have a genuine positive impact on the world.

The Learning Experience

Challenge-Based Learning

Inclusive Learning

Community

The world-unique Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees build on the Academy’s signature integrated learning framework that is focused on the intersection of human-centered design, technology, entrepreneurship, and communication. Students develop a powerfully agile mindset to analyze challenges, think across disciplinary boundaries, and synthesize diverse ideas to creative new technologies, ventures, and humane solutions for purpose-driven societal change. 

IYA Career Edge

The Academy’s rigorous and integrative academic framework, along with its strong emphasis on real-world professionalizing experiences, provides our students with the skills and abilities that are most relevant to 21st-century working environments. Academy graduates are well-prepared to realize the ‘careers of the future’, and to provide that essential innovative edge for any organization, in any field. 

Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat

The Iovine and Young Academy is rocket fuel for entrepreneurs - nurturing creativity and building the skills necessary to turn big ideas into big businesses.

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Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify

”The future leaders for innovative companies like Spotify need to be able to combine creativity, technology and business skills. The Iovine and  Young Academy is one of the top schools in the world in teaching its students the integrated skills and mindset needed to propel next generation companies like ours forward.”

Spaces That Drive Innovation

IYH houses more than 10,000 sq. ft. of sophisticated physical and digital maker spaces that support creation and development of innovative products, environments, and experiences.  

We teach for a world where human experience fuels purpose-driven technology and business innovation.

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Mission and Values

Creating at the intersection of tech, design, business, and culture.

State-of-the-art facilities to bring student ideas to life.

A transformative community through inclusion, diversity, equity, and access.

Fusing technology, arts, and entrepreneurship to celebrate the enduring qualities of the human spirit.

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