18 Master's degrees offered by the university

The Digital Photography program at School of Visual Arts emphasizes cutting-edge training via in-depth course work, critically focused workshops, special interest seminars, and presentations by technical experts and contemporary photographers.

The MFA Visual Narrative program at School of Visual Arts offers a fresh perspective and bold alternative to traditional MFA programs. We do so by recognizing that a command of story is the most powerful and fundamental foundation an artist in any creative profession can possess. 

Whether your background is in design, journalism, science, history or something else entirely, the Design Research, Writing and Criticism program at School of Visual Arts might just be the next step in your career trajectory.

The Fine Arts program at School of Visual Arts reflects the diversity of New York’s many art worlds. Together, the faculty and students form a community of established and emerging artists from many backgrounds who work across disciplines and modes of practice.

Our Photography, Video and Related Media students at School of Visual Arts are engaged in the understanding, creation, management, production, and interpretation of the lens-generated image.

The MFA Art Practice program at School of Visual Arts is an interdisciplinary, low residency graduate program designed for artists who seek both flexibility and academic rigor.

The Curatorial Practice degree at School of Visual Arts is a two-year program that focuses on professional training with a thorough grounding in the relevant study of art and exhibition history, research and theory, and with an emphasis on hands-on work with experts in the field, professional networking and the foremost goal of placing graduates of the program in curatorial jobs. 

School of Visual Arts’s Master of Professional Studies in Art Therapy is an immersive two-year, 60-credit program that prepares students to become licensed art therapists.

The goal of the Fashion Photography program at School of Visual Arts is the cultivation of an individual sensibility, informed by history and shaped by cultural forces that will withstand the pressure for aesthetic and market compromise, and will profoundly influence and affect the future of the medium. 

The Computer Arts program at School of Visual Arts emphasizes creativity and a multidisciplinary approach to producing innovative animation, motion graphics and fine art within a collaborative state-of-the-art production environment. 

The Directing program at School of Visual Arts offers emerging filmmakers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the art and craft of directing film. Great directors are great storytellers. The one-year master's program in film directing is designed to provide an extensive education in visual storytelling.

Interaction design creates opportunities to shape and guide behavior. It opens possibilities for experiences and exchanges not possible before. At the MFA Interaction Design program at School of Visual Arts, students learn to design products, services, and experiences shaped by the pressing needs of people and the planet we share.

Students of the Design for Social Innovation program at School of Visual Arts are immersed in social innovation in all its forms, from corporate programs, on-profit organizations, foundations and social entrepreneurs, and across a broad range of issues, including food, equity and justice, ethics, poverty, wealth creation, health and the environment.  

The innovative Illustration as Visual Essay program at School of Visual Arts, established in 1984, is deliberately designed as a full contact program for figurative artists. 

The MFA in Products of Design (PoD) at School of Visual Arts is a two-year, immersive program that prepares exceptional practitioners for leadership in the shifting terrain of design. 

The MFA Design / Designer as Entrepreneur program at School of Visual Arts is designed to both link and bridge these many approaches in a course of study that inspires students to conceive, produce, brand, and market their own innovative content. 

The Branding program at School of Visual Arts provides an innovative look at the relationship between design, branding, science and strategy, and focuses on how students can use learned skills to generate and sustain new market opportunities.

The Art Education department at School of Visual Arts takes a learner-centered approach that emphasizes collaboration and community and empowers the voices of students from diverse backgrounds and needs.