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3.5k Master's degrees in Arts, Design & Architecture in United States
Technical Direction
Technical Direction from University of North Carolina School of the Arts covers scene construction, stage automation, theatrical rigging, and even management.

Music Education - Performance
This Music Education - Performance MA programme from the Liberty University provides an overview of major principles, philosophies, and practices in music education.
Music Education
The Music Education program at Arkansas State University provides emphasis area in Choral and Instrumental Music.
Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere
The Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere MA program at University of Southern California is an intensive Master's-level course in the practice and history of art, curating and critical theory. With a focus on the research and exhibition of contemporary art, instructors with international careers lead students in asking social questions about the exhibition of art and its publics.
Orchestral Studies
The Orchestral Studies degree from Roosevelt University prepares students majoring in strings, woodwinds, brass, harp or percussion for careers as orchestral musicians.
Industrial Design
The School of Industrial Design's MFA program at Academy of Art University provides advanced study within focused fields of physical design.
Organ Studies
Organ Studies from University of Southern California is a two-year, 30-unit program consisting individual organ instruction, interpretation of baroque music, ensemble, music history and electives. A graduate recital is required.
Art History - Florence Programme in Italian Renaissance Art
The Art History - Florence Programme in Italian Renaissance Art programme from Syracuse University is the oldest programme accredited in the United States for which most of the study—two of three semesters—is conducted in Italy.
Keyboard Collaborative Arts
With the Keyboard Collaborative Arts degree from Chapman University you’ll be prepared for a successful career as a pianist who collaborates effectively and professionally with vocalists, instrumentalists, dancers and actors, as well as choral, opera and orchestral directors.
Art History
The MA in Art History at the University of Utah is a competitive two-year program of study that prepares students to be broadly knowledgeable about the fields of art, art history, and visual studies, to develop a specific scholarly focus, and to acquire research and communication skills.
Music Education
Master’s degree students typically join the Music Education program at University of Miami after several years of teaching in public or private school settings, and already possess music teacher certification.
Photography and Video
The Photography and Video program at University of Houston blends tradition with innovation, preparing students to push boundaries, experiment across disciplines, and craft meaningful creative works.
Digital Art History and Computational Media
The Digital Art History and Computational Media at Duke University is designed for graduate students focused on the study, creation, and use of digital media and computation in the arts and humanities.
Art History (Non-thesis)
An intensive, two-year program in Art History (Non-thesis) offered by the University of Georgia that provides students with a command of art's history, while honing research skills necessary for advanced work in the field.
Performance Pedagogy
This Performance Pedagogy curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette focuses on the study of advanced pedagogy techniques, teaching special populations, and the performance practice and pedagogy of advanced literature.
Ethnomusicology
Combined with more than a dozen affiliated faculty in other departments, five world-music performance ensembles, and a new undergraduate major in Music and Culture, this makes the Ethnomusicology program at the University of California, Riverside a leader in several areas of research and performance.
Writing for the Screen and Stage
The Writing for the Screen and Stage program at Northwestern University is founded upon these five principles, principles that have also guided Northwestern's highly successful undergraduate Creative Writing for the Media Program.
Composition
The Composition degree program from Oklahoma City University is designed to develop technical and musical skills through weekly, hour-long, private composition lessons.
Devised Performance
The Devised Performance program offered by Rowan University is designed to train and launch the next generation of theatre professionals, adroit in creating original theatre with a rigorous attention to quality using all the materials at their disposal: their bodies, voices, imaginations and skills in collaboration and in creating surprising and arresting moments of live performance.
Music
The Music MM program from San José State University offers in-depth preparation and training for careers in performance, conducting, composition, research, and teaching, as well as providing advanced-level preparation for further advanced study, in ten distinct areas.