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26 Master's degrees offered by the university
Sound Art
The two-year Sound Art program at Columbia University seeks artists who have a deep engagement with sound as a creative medium and a desire to join a diverse community of artists and musicians
Film
The Film program at Columbia University became renowned for its devotion to story, its uniquely integrated curriculum, and its faculty of working professionals esteemed in both Hollywood and the independent film community
Urban Planning
The Urban Planning program at Columbia University is a two-year accredited professional degree. The program takes a comparative, global perspective to urban planning, centring social justice and critical practice.
Advanced Architectural Design
The Advanced Architectural Design PROGRAM at Columbia University is a three-semester program aimed at providing outstanding young professionals—who already hold a Bachelor of Architecture or Master of Architecture—the opportunity to conceptualize design as a critical practice that shapes the world’s technological, relational, and environmental evolutions.
Film - Creative Producing
The Film - Creative Producing program at Columbia University is a three-year program that takes advantage of Columbia’s unique geography at the center of the independent film world, with the mission of creating the next generation of producers.
Theatre - Theatre Management and Producing
The goal of the Theatre - Theatre Management and Producing program at Columbia University is to educate and inspire a new generation of creative managers and producers.
Architecture
The Architecture program at Columbia University is a three-year accredited professional degree program and is regularly ranked one of the top architecture graduate programs in the country.
Historic Preservation
The Historic Preservation program at Columbia University educates students to create new, future-oriented roles for built heritage that promote inclusive and resilient communities.
Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices In Architecture
The Masters of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture (CCCP) from Columbia University offers advanced training in the fields of architectural criticism, publishing, curating, exhibiting, writing, and research through a two-year, full-time course of intensive academic study and independent research.
Vision, Graphics, Interaction and Robotics
Join the Computer Science Master's Degree in Vision, Graphics, Interaction and Robotics programme from Columbia University.
Music and Music Education (Non-Certification)
The traditional Music and Music Education (Non-Certification) program at Columbia University is designed to allow flexibility in course selection, so that each student may prepare for his or her professional career in music education.
Visual Arts
The Visual Arts program at Columbia University attracts emerging artists of unusual promise from around the world. They join a vigorous community, working alongside an exceptional faculty at a world-renowned research institution in New York City.
Computational Design Practices
The Computational Design Practices programme from Columbia University advances interdisciplinary design research and practice across GSAPP and tackles the complex questions that arise when data meets design, space, and the built environment.
Theatre - Directing
The Theatre - Directing program at Columbia University is based on the idea that one’s vision as a director is developed through practice, encouragement, critical feedback, collaboration…and more practice
Film - Screenwriting and Directing
The mission of the Film - Screenwriting and Directing program at Columbia University is to rigorously train storytellers in film, television, and digital media. This concentration is specifically for students who intend to immerse themselves in the art of both writing and directing, many of whom will go on to become writer-directors.
Theatre - Stage Management
The Theatre - Stage Management program at Columbia University provides a holistic approach for students who wish to pursue careers as professional stage managers.
Music and Music Education
The Music and Music Education program at Columbia University embraces humanistic values as they relate to contemporary musical and educational life. while respecting the musical traditions of the past.
Music and Music Education (Hybrid Summer)
The Music and Music Education (Hybrid Summer) program at Columbia University attracts students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, experiences, and musical and educative interests
Film - Writing for Film and Television
The new three-year Film - Writing for Film and Television program at Columbia University will build on this tradition and is designed to help talented young writers learn to tell their stories in the strongest ways to prepare them for real world careers in screenplay and teleplay writing.
Theatre - Acting
Attending the Theatre - Acting program at Columbia University is making a declaration – to yourself, to us, to the world – that you will be a professional actor. In turn, we provide you with a comprehensive range of resources, a variety of techniques to explore, and a remarkable faculty from whom to learn