26 Master's degrees offered by the university

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Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Visual Arts

The Visual Arts program at Columbia University attracts emerging artists of unusual promise from around the world. They join a vigorous community, working alongside an exceptional faculty at a world-renowned research institution in New York City.

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
2 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Advanced Architectural Design

The Advanced Architectural Design PROGRAM at Columbia University is a three-semester program aimed at providing outstanding young professionals—who already hold a Bachelor of Architecture or Master of Architecture—the opportunity to conceptualize design as a critical practice that shapes the world’s technological, relational, and environmental evolutions. 

M.Sc. Full-time On-campus
1½ year$70,380/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Sound Art

The two-year Sound Art program at Columbia University seeks artists who have a deep engagement with sound as a creative medium and a desire to join a diverse community of artists and musicians

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
2 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Architecture and Urban Design

The Architecture and Urban Design program at Columbia University is a three-semester degree in the multidisciplinary study of cities, regions, infrastructures, and ecosystems.

M.Sc. Full-time On-campus
1½ year$70,380/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Theatre - Playwriting

The Theatre - Playwriting program at Columbia University embraces diverse voices and aesthetics. There are many ways to write a great play, exemplified by our faculty, which includes Tony©, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as Charles Mee, Lynn Nottage, and David Henry Hwang.

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
3 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Urban and Social Policy

The Urban and Social Policy program at Columbia University is an interdisciplinary program providing students with the content knowledge, critical thinking, and analytic skills needed for a successful career in urban policy and/or social policy.

Master Full-time On-campus
2 years$71,368/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Documentary

The Documentary program at Columbia University combines world‐class training in how to be a reporter with professional skills in the craft of long-form visual storytelling.

M.Sc. Full-time On-campus
9 months$81,500/full
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Film - Screenwriting and Directing

The mission of the Film -  Screenwriting and Directing program at Columbia University is to rigorously train storytellers in film, television, and digital media. This concentration is specifically for students who intend to immerse themselves in the art of both writing and directing, many of whom will go on to become writer-directors.

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
2 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Theatre - Acting

Attending the Theatre - Acting program at Columbia University is making a declaration – to yourself, to us, to the world – that you will be a professional actor. In turn, we provide you with a comprehensive range of resources, a variety of techniques to explore, and a remarkable faculty from whom to learn

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
3 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Urban Planning

The Urban Planning program at Columbia University is a two-year accredited professional degree. The program takes a comparative, global perspective to urban planning, centring social justice and critical practice. 

M.Sc. Full-time +2 On-campus +2
2 years$70,380/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Film - Creative Producing

The Film - Creative Producing program at Columbia University is a three-year program that takes advantage of Columbia’s unique geography at the center of the independent film world, with the mission of creating the next generation of producers.

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
3 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Architecture

The Architecture program at Columbia University is a three-year accredited professional degree program and is regularly ranked one of the top architecture graduate programs in the country. 

Master Full-time On-campus
3 years$70,380/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Film

The Film program at Columbia University became renowned for its devotion to story, its uniquely integrated curriculum, and its faculty of working professionals esteemed in both Hollywood and the independent film community

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
2 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Music and Music Education (Hybrid Summer)

The Music and Music Education (Hybrid Summer) program at Columbia University attracts students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, experiences, and musical and educative interests

M.A. Full-time Blended
2 years$38,358/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Theatre - Stage Management

The Theatre - Stage Management program at Columbia University provides a holistic approach for students who wish to pursue careers as professional stage managers. 

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
3 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Theatre - Theatre Management and Producing

The goal of the Theatre -  Theatre Management and Producing program at Columbia University is to educate and inspire a new generation of creative managers and producers.

M.F.A. Full-time On-campus
3 years$77,840/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Computational Design Practices

The Computational Design Practices programme from Columbia University advances interdisciplinary design research and practice across GSAPP and tackles the complex questions that arise when data meets design, space, and the built environment.

M.Sc. Full-time +2 On-campus
1½ year$70,380/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Online Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Vision, Graphics, Interaction and Robotics

Join the Computer Science Master's Degree in Vision, Graphics, Interaction and Robotics programme from Columbia University.

M.Sc. Part-time Online
$64,800/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Historic Preservation

The Historic Preservation program at Columbia University educates students to create new, future-oriented roles for built heritage that promote inclusive and resilient communities.

M.A. Full-time +2 On-campus
1 year$70,380/yr
Columbia University4,3(91)
Manhattan, United States Top 0.1% in Worldwide

Music and Music Education (Non-Certification)

The traditional Music and Music Education (Non-Certification) program at Columbia University is designed to allow flexibility in course selection, so that each student may prepare for his or her professional career in music education.

M.A. Full-time On-campus
1 year$38,358/yr

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