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3.5k Master's degrees in Arts, Design & Architecture in United States
Classical Performance
The Classical Performance programme at The City University of New York offers an intensive study environment for dedicated musicians. This comprehensive degree provides advanced training through a flexible study mode, ensuring students master their craft within a world-class urban academic centre over a standard duration.
Music
It is an opportunity to join your classmates and oftentimes your professors in the thrill of a recital in front of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience on campus and on the road. At East Carolina University's Music, MM program, you will find yourself on stage a lot.
Music Performance
The Music Performance programme at Appalachian State University provides a comprehensive full-time degree for aspiring musicians. This undergraduate course focuses on developing technical mastery and artistic expression. Students benefit from a rigorous curriculum designed to prepare them for professional careers in the arts.
Performing Arts
Bring complex characters to life and reach global audiences with Performing Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design
Music
In the Music program at Tufts University you will learn to communicate critically about music, develop knowledge of its cultural and historical contexts, and master advanced research skills.
Products of Design
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.
Performance
The Master of Music in Performance program at Boston University provides training to highly advanced instrumentalists and vocalists, focusing on the study and performance of solo repertoire as well as chamber music, orchestral, wind ensemble, choral, and/or opera repertoire.
Illustration
Rhode Island School of Design’s MFA in Illustration encourages experienced visual communicators to reflect on the illustrator’s role as an influential social actor—within the profession and in the world.
Composition
Composition from Stony Brook University shares a belief in solid grounding in both traditional theory and in the newest musical technologies, and emphasize collaborative relationships with performers.
Timpani and Percussion
As a student in the Timpani and Percussion program of Cleveland Institute of Music, you'll enjoy an intensive performance environment focused on two symphony orchestras under the guidance of principals from The Cleveland Orchestra.
Music- Conducting
Music- Conducting is offered by University of Southern Maine. Earn your degree on your terms: Study full-time and finish in as few as 2 years or study part-time and finish in 4 years.
Cinema and Media studies
The Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media studies program from University of Washington prepares students for advanced studies in Comparative Literature or in related fields such as individual national literatures, philosophy, or religion, or for careers in teaching on the elementary, secondary, or junior college levels.
Architecture
The Architecture program at Temple University is a STEM classified, first professional degree preparing students for the practice of architecture through a rigorous course of study that engages students with urgent urban, architectural, environmental, and sociocultural issues.

Experience Design
The Master of Fine Arts in Experience Design at Northeastern University prepares students to be vital contributors and leaders of professional experience design teams where technological innovation intersects with design.
Directing
The M.F.A. Directing offered by Ohio University prepares advanced students for careers as professional directors. Admission to the program is by interview and audition at the annual U/RTA sites and at scheduled interviews on campus. The Professional Directing program is open to a limited number of talented, mature, and committed students.
Dance
The Master of Fine Arts in Dance at Smith College is designed to focus on the art of expressive choreography and meaningful performance. The degree program is much more than a schedule of classes and a thesis.

Painting
In the Painting concentration at University of Memphis, students focus on advancing their technical skills, artistic vision, and conceptual understanding within the medium of painting.
Directing
At California Institute of the Arts CalArts, in addition to MFA Directing-specific seminars and labs, students participate extensively in the Acting Program as well as in the Programs in Experience Design and Production.
Image Text
The master of fine Arts in Image Text delivered at Cornell University is a low-residency program that brings together critically, culturally, and politically engaged practices in creative writing, visual media, and design for print and digital publication.
Architecture
The School of Architecture at University of Florida offers graduate work leading to the first professional degree, Master of Architecture. During graduate studies, each student has the opportunity to focus on one or more areas, including design, history and theory, urban design, preservation, structures, and technology.