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51 Master's degrees offered by the university
Systems Architecting and Engineering
The Systems Architecting and Engineering MSc program at University of Southern California is recommended to graduate engineers and engineering managers responsible for the conception and implementation of complex systems. Emphasis is on the creative process by which these systems are conceived, planned, designed, built, tested, certified, used and retired.
Master of Building Science
The Master of Building Science MBS program offered at University of Southern California recognizes that exemplary buildings are based on responses to the human condition and to natural forces, requiring good judgment and knowledge for the creative use of architectural technology.
Landscape 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. Thus, the Landscape Architecture Certificate program at University of Southern California has a particular focus on urban place-making in relation to three principles.
Cinema & Media Studies
The Cinema & Media Studies MA program offered at University of Southern California offers a comprehensive examination of the cultural, artistic, and commercial contexts of media creation, consumption, and scholarship.
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.
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.
Conducting
Candidates for the Conducting degree at University of Southern California must pass a comprehensive review toward the end of their course of study, usually in the final semester.
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.
Clinical Research Design and Management Certificate
The Clinical Research Design and Management Certificate program at University of Southern California is a joint effort to train medical students, fellows or other health professionals in clinical research methods to translate clinical, biomedical and technological discoveries into advances in population-based, clinical or basic science research.
Fine Arts
A two-year program administered in collaboration with the Graduate School, the Fine Arts MFA program offered by University of Southern California is a professional degree in the practice of art preparing students to pursue careers as professional artists.
Animation and Digital Arts
The Animation and Digital Arts MFA program offered at University of Southern California focuses on animation production while covering the field's wide range of techniques and aesthetic approaches.