39 Master's degrees in Media Studies & Mass Media in California, United States
Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing
Through classes, workshops, and events, Master of Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from California Institute of Integral Studies engages a culture of inquiry to further develop and articulate your work. Through this conversation across the arts, genuine and meaningful discovery happens.
Journalism Certificate
With the advent of multi-platform reporting, the demand for innovative journalists has never been stronger as media outlets and content providers seek fresh and inventive ways to satisfy their audiences’ curiosity. Apply to the Journalism Certificate program offered at University of Southern California.
Filmmaking
The New York Film Academy Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Filmmaking program is a highly specialized degree with intensive study in narrative storytelling, screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, producing, and post-production sound design.
Mass Communication
San Diego State University's School of Journalism & Media Studies offers graduate study leading to the Master of Arts degree in communication with a specialization in Mass Communication and media studies.
Media Arts and Practice
The Media Arts and Practice (MA+P) MFA program offered at University of Southern California is a community of multi-media creators who are fluent in the techniques and technologies of digital art and design, cinematic media, and storytelling.
Television, Film and Media Studies
Television, Film and Media Studies from California State University Los Angeles is designed to enable students to acquire a Masters-level understanding and knowledge of media theory, media research, and media analysis and critique.
Digital Social Media
If you are interested in working in the digital and social media sector, if you want to be a social media professional or an entrepreneur in this area, if you want to understand the science and practice of digital social media, then the Digital Social Media MSc program at University of Southern California is the graduate degree experience for you.
Communication Management
The Communication Management MCG program offered at University of Southern California teaches concepts and skills relevant to today’s communication professional.
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.
Interactive Media
The Interactive Media Division offers the Interactive Media MFA program at University of Southern California as well as a number of courses in computer-based entertainment for non-majors. The fundamental philosophy of the division is coherent with that of the programs of the school, stressing creativity of expression, experimentation and excellence in execution.
Mass Communication
The Mass Communication program at California State University Northridge allows for development of individual professional skills to produce digital media content, and it also focuses on evaluation of media performance, using analytic and research techniques that culminate in a Thesis, Graduate Project or Comprehensive Examination.
Digital Media and Culture Graduate Certificate
If you are interested in working in the digital and social media sector, if you want to be a social media professional or an entrepreneur in this area, if you want to understand the science and practice of digital social media, then the Digital Media and Culture Graduate Certificate program at University of Southern California is the graduate degree experience for you.

Communications - Mass Communications Research and Theory
The Communications - Mass Communications Research and Theory Concentration at California State University Fullerton provides students with advanced study in communications theory and research and offers an opportunity to integrate all aspects of the profession into a single degree.
Advertising and Branded Media Technology
The MA in Advertising and Branded Media Technology provides students at Academy of Art University with an opportunity to learn the technical skills that will support their future careers in the art of advertising.
Film and Media Studies
The Film and Media Studies programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara offers advanced MA and PhD pathways. This full-time, on-campus course focuses on global media culture through a humanistic lens. Students engage in rigorous historical and theoretical analysis within a world-class research environment.
Media Psychology
The world needs professionals who understand how media influences human behavior and how that can be used to influence content creation, technology design, consumption, and research. We offer a bachelor degree in Media Psychology at Fielding Graduate University.
Mass Communications
The Mass Communications program at San José State University was designed to help students master the concepts and skills that are driving emerging communication technologies in public relations, advertising, and journalism.
Film and Television
The vision of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is to serve as a premier interdisciplinary global professional school that develops outstanding humanistic storytellers, industry leaders and scholars whose diverse, innovative voices enlighten, engage and inspire change for a better world. The Film and Television Program is offered at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) .
Media Arts and Technology
The Media Arts and Technology programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. This full-time, on-campus course integrates engineering with creative arts. It is designed for ambitious students with backgrounds in science or music who wish to pursue advanced intermedia research.