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19 Master's degrees offered by the university
Fashion Studies
The Fashion Studies MA program offered at The New School investigates the material and visual dimensions of fashion as dress, image, and bodily practice and as a major cultural industry that positions the individual within society and the world.
Architecture and Lighting Design
Explore issues related to public space, housing, neighborhood integration, traffic and pedestrian safety, and other matters of key importance to urban centers at The New School's Architecture and Lighting Design program.
Design and Technology
The Design and Technology MFA program offered at The New School provides a dynamic, challenging, and idea-driven environment in which to address these challenges.
Photography
The Photography MFA program offered by The New School prepares students to become practicing artists and scholars who redefine the creative role of photography within contemporary culture.
History of Design and Curatorial Studies
This History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA program offered by The New School is offered jointly by Parsons and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, brings an object-focused, practice-based approach to the study of European and American decorative arts and design dating from the Renaissance to the present.
Strategic Design and Management
The Strategic Design and Management MSc program offered by The New School is both academically rigorous and practice-oriented, providing hands-on learning experiences.
Transdisciplinary Design
The Transdisciplinary Design MFA program offered by The New School employs a collaborative, systems-oriented approach to design and social thought, emphasizing design-led research. This program functions as an academic laboratory in New York City where you develop creative practices to address emerging and complex challenges.
Architecture
The Architecture MArch program at The New School is a three-year NAAB-accredited professional degree for students holding a pre-professional undergraduate degree in architecture or a four-year non-architecture degree.
Documentary Media Studies
The Documentary Media Studies Postgrad. Cert. program offered by The New School is an intensive professional education program for prospective documentarians.
Fine Arts
The Fine Arts MFA program offered at The New School is guided by the belief that artists perform an essential role in society. The program is rigorously interdisciplinary and enables you to develop diverse studio practices while pursuing related scholarship and research.
Design And Urban Ecologies
The Master of Science in Design And Urban Ecologies from The New School radically reframes the study of urbanization and cities through design-led, justice-centered approaches to urban transformation.
Interior Design
The Interior Design MFA program offered by The New School is uniquely positioned to lead the discourse and practice of interior design in the 21st century.
Lighting Design
The Lighting Design MFA program offered by The New School, the first of its kind in the world, has trained leaders in this rapidly evolving field for more than 45 years.
Fashion Design and the Arts
In the MFA Fashion Design and the Arts at The New School, you develop sustainable and inclusive approaches to fashion innovation through studio-based projects that are closely linked to the fashion industry and cultural institutions of Paris.
Performer-Composer
The Performer-Composer MM program offered at The New School is designed for musicians whose passion lies at the intersection of composition, performance, and improvisation.
Fashion Design and Society
The Fashion Design and Society MFA program offered at The New School is the first graduate program of its kind in the United States, with a unique interdisciplinary and international approach to fashion.
Communication Design
The Communication Design MPS program at The New School is tailored to practicing designers seeking to enhance their digital skills and leadership potential as well as professionals with relevant design experience who want to enter the field.
Industrial Design
The Industrial Design MFA program offered by The New School offers an innovative two-year, 60-credit full-time graduate curriculum that prepares students to negotiate the seemingly contradictory forces at play in the growing product design industry.
Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Broaden the definition of your artistry and engage in a range of creative disciplines and approaches, applying your skills as a maker, interpreter, and performer across a vast range of performance environments at The New School with our MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance.