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24 Master's degrees offered by the university
Arts Management
Arts and cultural institutions need leaders who are as passionate as the artists and audiences they support. These organizations face unique challenges in the digital age, and the Master of Arts Management (MAM) program at Carnegie Mellon University prepares students to face those challenges and ensure that the arts continue to thrive.
Lighting Design
The School of Drama graduate Lighting Design option from Carnegie Mellon University is an integrated, hands-on, three-year program that teaches practical, theoretical and conceptual approaches for lighting design and technology.
Design
The Master of Arts (MA) in Design at Carnegie Mellon University is a one-year degree intended for students without design experience, who would like to transition from other disciplines, or add a design complement to their existing professional profile.
Sound Design
The Graduate Sound Design program from Carnegie Mellon University teaches students conceptual, compositional and technical practices necessary for creating and integrating audio elements into a production, while encouraging exploration into uncharted sonic territories during the three-year program.
Sustainable Design
The Carnegie Mellon University Sustainable Design offers an integrated education that strives to prepare its graduates for careers that will reshape the built environment. The MSSD program engages socio-ecological and environmental issues related to architecture and urbanism at the intersection of design, building science, and technology.
Professional Studies
The Master in Professional Studies from Carnegie Mellon University is a one-year program that helps you develop expertise in design for interactions within the context of services and social innovation.
Technical Direction
An advanced understanding of resource management, communication and facilitation of every aspect of the creative process is an integral part of Technical Direction training from Carnegie Mellon University, both in the classroom and in hands-on production experiences.
Costume Design
The School of Drama graduate Costume Design program from Carnegie Mellon University produces innovative leaders in the design and production fields of clothing for the stage, television, and film industries.
Architecture - Engineering - Construction Management
The Carnegie Mellon University Master of Science in Architecture - Engineering - Construction Management (MSAECM) focuses on the integration of design and technology, particularly advanced information systems, as a means of both improving building performance and enhancing environmental sustainability.
Master of Arts Management
In the Master of Arts Management (MAM) program, our innovative approach centers on the intersection of people, policy, and technology with an arts focus. Courses in analytics and quantitative management—alongside exciting opportunities for industry-centered experiential learning—will train you to navigate the rapidly changing cultural economy of the 21st century.
Music and Technology
The Master of Science in Music and Technology gives Carnegie Mellon University students the freedom to push the boundaries of their expertise. Students accepted into this program have presented substantial work outside the typical four-year-degree, and excel in music or some aspect of technology, demonstrating a aptitude and desire to explore a specialized area with significant depth.
Dramatic Writing
This is a rigorous graduate Dramatic Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University with a substantial workload. It fosters the courage to fail and try again; the integrity and flexibility needed for a collaborative practice; and curiosity, because curious people make better things.
Integrated Innovation for Products and Services
The Master of Integrated Innovation for Products and Services(MIIPS) degree at Carnegie Mellon University trains the next generation of innovators, design thinkers, disruptors, and world changers. In the MIIPS program, you'll learn to tackle industry and society’s greatest challenges in a world that increasingly merges technology with humanity.
Costume Production
The Graduate Costume Production program from Carnegie Mellon University produces leaders and innovators who are capable of working collaboratively and interdisciplinarity in the fields of modern costume making and management. These artisans work at the intersections of time-honored techniques, innovative methodologies, and emerging technologies as prolific contributors to the industry.
Urban Design
The studio-based curriculum of Urban Design master's program from Carnegie Mellon University allows students to explore design strategies in a variety of scales and settings, from the post-industrial city to the suburban periphery to the dense global metropolis.
Advanced Architectural Design
This Advanced Architectural Design Program at Carnegie Mellon University is a post-professional, design-based program that engages emerging methods of computational design, simulation, data processing, and fabrication to speculate upon future modes of architectural practice, enhanced construction methods, and alternative material manifestations within the built environment.
Music Education
The Master of Music degree in Music Education at Carnegie Mellon University is designed to meet the needs of practicing music educators. A personalized course of study based on academic background and professional interests is selected in consultation with the student’s advisor.
Scenic Design
The School of Drama graduate Scenic Design program from Carnegie Mellon University prepares student for careers as scenic designers for theater, opera, dance, camera and environments for all forms of entertainment.
Architecture
The Architecture program from Carnegie Mellon University is built on the university's100-year tradition of training architects in the practice of design and technical fundamentals, with the opportunity to engage with the School of Architecture’s long-standing expertise in sustainable design, computational design, urban design, and construction management.
Video and Media Design
The School of Drama graduate Video and Media Design program from Carnegie Mellon University is a conceptually rigorous, hands-on and innovative three–year program that teaches advanced technical skills in a critical context.