IYA Commencement 2023 Empowers Graduates to Follow Their Dreams

IYA Student Startup Wins Min Family Challenge Grand Prize

Keynote Speaker Asma Ishaq Embodies the IYA Spirit

Achieving Algorithmic Justice Through Inclusive Design

Grad Student's 'Pet' Project Sparks IYA Journey

From Disney to Startups and AI, a Designer Makes Her Mark

The Art of Being Yourself

Right Where She Belongs: Creating a Community for Women in Tech

IYA Student Organizes USC'S First Black Career Fair

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

Technology Trends to Look Out For (Straight From the World's Most Influential Tech Event)

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

Student Featured as Stem Bestie on Mission Unstoppable Series

Transforming the Way Content Creators Do Business

Inside the Mind of a Meta Product Designer

Advocating For Change All the Way to Paris Fashion Week

Why This Xbox Project Manager is Game For Any Career Challenge

In School and On Set, a Student Taps Into Her Potential

Student Turns Battle With Malnutrition Into Socially Impactful Business

To the Moon and Back: AR meets Space Exploration

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

How to Hack It: The Appeal of the Hackathon

A Student Designs to Disrupt -- And Takes Her Vision to The Grammys

IYA Students Present 'Care Reimagined' Collaboration With EY to USC Board of Trustees

A Grad Student Explores the Creative Side of Engineering

Inaugural IYA Venture Showcase Connects Student Innovators With Industry Advisors

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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