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Emerging Media Arts
Create the future you want
Applications for the B.F.A. in Emerging Media Arts for fall 2025-26 academic year are open.
An arts program unlike any other.
EMA teaches students to tell stories and create worlds across disciplines old, new and those still being discovered. Through filmmaking, interactive media, virtual reality, experience design, sonic arts, wearable technologies, AI and more, our students grow into creative leaders for an evolving world, graduating with the skills they need to tell the stories that matter to them.
make from day one
learn
Our students don't wait. Through hands-on learning in our state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll start creating from day one. With close faculty mentoring, students gain a foundational knowledge of storytelling, vision expression, entrepreneurship, and computational media.
by doing
learn by doing
Our students don't wait. Through hands-on learning in our state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll start creating from day one. With close faculty mentoring, students gain a foundational knowledge of storytelling, vision expression, entrepreneurship, and computational media.
Advance Your Skills
Our strong industry connections across entertainment, tech, and business provide students with opportunities to network with leaders in their profession, attend global summits and attend visiting artist conversations on campus.
Real World Experience
Take your learning beyond the classroom and intern with companies like CALIBRASKA, Synthetic Cinema, local ad agency Pixel Bakery and more.
Cutting-edge Research
Work one-on-one with a faculty to conduct research on a broad range of engaging cutting-edge topics.
get connected
Learn from award-winning faculty and engage with industry leaders from across the globe who serve on our advisory council.
Tom Barker - Advisory Council
Educator, researcher, strategist, designer, and maverick in architecture, art, technology and design for 25 years.
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news
Johnny Carson Foundation gives $2.5M to create endowed directorship for Carson Center
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has announced a $2.5 million gift from the Johnny Carson Foundation to create an endowed directorship for the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
