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51 Master's degrees offered by the university
Sacred Music
The Sacred Music MM program offered at University of Southern California is a two-year, 30-unit program that includes course work in sacred music, choral conducting, choral literature, choral development, music history, and vocal arts. The program culminates with a graduate recital.
Screen Scoring
The Screen Scoring MM program offered at University of Southern California is widely recognized as one of the world’s finest for musical composition in visual media; in fact, The Hollywood Erporter recently ranked the program #1.
Performance (Vocal Arts)
The Performance (Vocal Arts) MM program offered at University of Southern California is a two-year, 30-unit program consisting of individual instruction, ensembles, cantata and oratorio, pedagogy, vocal literature, music history and electives. A graduate recital is required.
Classical Guitar
Classical Guitar offered at University of Southern California is uniquely suited to prepare guitarists for success in today’s world, offering a targeted, multifaceted educational approach that develops each student’s full potential.
Peter Stark Producing Program
The Peter Stark Producing Program MFA program at University of Southern California is an innovative, two-year (four-semester) full-time graduate program designed to prepare a select group of highly motivated students for careers as producers and executives of film, television, and new media.
Choral Music
The Choral Music offered at University of Southern California is a two-year, 30-unit program that includes course work in choral conducting, choral music seminars, choral literature, choral development, music history, and vocal arts. The program culminates with a graduate recital.
Composition
The composers on the USC Thornton School of Music faculty are outstanding members of the international musical community, with major commissions, awards, recordings and residencies among the faculty’s many accolades. Join the Composition degree at University of Southern California.
Learning Design and Technology Graduate Certificate
The Learning Design and Technology Graduate Certificate program offered at University of Southern California requires five terms in residency to complete. Preference will be given to full-time students, although accommodations for part-time study may be arranged with the approval of the program director.
Performance Graduate Certificate
Performance Graduate Certificate from University of Southern California is a two-year, 30-unit program consisting of individual instruction, chamber music, symphony, music history, conducting, interpretation of baroque music and electives. A graduate recital is required.
Entertainment Law and Industry Certificate
The Entertainment Law and Industry Certificate program offered at University of Southern California offers a comprehensive examination of the cultural, artistic, and commercial contexts of media creation, consumption, and scholarship.
Master of Business Administration, Master of Urban Planning
The Master of Business Administration, Master of Urban Planning program at University of Southern California is designed to provide those who have completed a traditional M.B.A. with an opportunity to pursue further study in an area of specialization subsequent to successfully completing the Master of Business Administration.
Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development
Real Estate developers are the impresarios of the built environment. They orchestrate the talents of many players and balance the needs and interests of the various constituents touched by a real estate project. It is their job to discover how we want to live and work and to provide the settings accordingly.
Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
University of Southern California offers an international laboratory for the study of place in an extraordinary natural landscape, at the center of an unparalleled multicultural region, within the context of a great urban university.
Jazz Studies
Jazz Studies from University of Southern California is a two-year, 30-unit program, focusing on individual jazz instruction, jazz composition, jazz pedagogy, jazz ensemble development, and ensembles, coupled with traditional music history. Two graduate recitals are required.
Film and Television Production
Everywhere you look these days, there are screens that need content. The Division of Film and Television Production offered at University of Southern California teaches students how to make compelling, in-demand content for screens of every size-whether it's IMAX or a hand-held device. Apply to the Film and Television Production MFA program at University of Southern California.
Design
The Design MFA program offered at University of Southern California requires five terms in residency to complete. Preference will be given to full-time students, although accommodations for part-time study may be arranged with the approval of the program director.
Learning Design and Technology (online)
The Learning Design and Technology (online) program at University of Southern California is designed for working professionals who desire to advance their career in instructional design.
Architecture Certificate
University of Southern California offers an international laboratory for the study of place in an extraordinary natural landscape, at the center of an unparalleled multicultural region, within the context of a great urban university. Thus, the Architecture Certificate program at University of Southern California has a particular focus on urban place-making in relation to three principles.
Advanced Architectural Research Studies
Join this Master of Advanced Architectural Research Studies programme from University of Southern California.
Urban Planning
The Urban Planning MUP program offered at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy is one of the most distinguished academic programs of its kind.