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26 Master's degrees offered by the university
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.
Documentary
The Documentary program at Columbia University combines world‐class training in how to be a reporter with professional skills in the craft of long-form visual storytelling.
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.
Film and Media Studies
The Film and Media Studies program at Columbia University takes up the evolution of cinema as an art, an institution, an object of philosophical study, and an international socio-cultural phenomenon. But digital image media have altered our conceptualizations of everything.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Art History and Archaeology
The Art History and Archaeology program at Columbia University offers courses in the history, theory, and criticism of art and archaeology.
Architecture and Urban Design
The Architecture and Urban Design program at Columbia University is a three-semester degree in the multidisciplinary study of cities, regions, infrastructures, and ecosystems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Urban and Social Policy
The Urban and Social Policy program at Columbia University is an interdisciplinary program providing students with the content knowledge, critical thinking, and analytic skills needed for a successful career in urban policy and/or social policy.
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.