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26 Master's degrees offered by the university
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Vision, Graphics, Interaction and Robotics
Join the Computer Science Master's Degree in Vision, Graphics, Interaction and Robotics programme from Columbia University.
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.
Theatre - Directing
The Theatre - Directing program at Columbia University is based on the idea that one’s vision as a director is developed through practice, encouragement, critical feedback, collaboration…and more practice