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301 Master's degrees offered by the university
Industrial Engineering
The Industrial Engineering programme from Columbia University is a 30-credit STEM programme for students with an undergraduate engineering degree who want to enhance their training in special fields, such as scheduling, production planning, inventory control, and industrial economics.
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.
Journalism
The Master of Arts Journalism program from Columbia University trains experienced journalists to go deeper and equips them with subject-area expertise, so they can explain complicated issues to the public. Students develop an intellectual grounding in their concentration that enables them to ask more informed questions, evaluate evidence for competing theories and produce sophisticated stories.
Biomedical Informatics
The Biomedical Informatics program at Columbia University prepares students for practical, hands-on careers in informatics. Graduates have gone on to work at hospitals, entered industry, or enrolled in PhD programs.
Biostatistics
The Biostatistics program at Columbia University is designed to enhance the quantitative skills of public health practitioners who use statistics frequently in their work.
Population and Family Health
This 30-credit Population and Family Health program at Columbia University is for individuals who have started their careers, and is designed to leverage the Heilbrunn Department’s strength in integrated research and practice
Politics
The Politics program at Columbia University aims to teach students how to think more deeply about social and politics affairs.
Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics - Applied Statistics
The Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics - Applied Statistics program at Columbia University provides training for a number of data-science positions in applied research settings, testing organizations, and businesses.
Art and Art Education - Museum Education
The Art and Art Education - Museum Education program at Columbia University offers a flexible degree that allows students to pursue their own interests, conduct research, and develop special projects in the field of art education.
Science
Students in the Science program at Columbia University focus on themes and ways of thinking that can be used to cover any scientific field, whether it’s health, technology or the hard sciences. They get a landscape view, looking at history, patterns of discovery and innovation.
Human Rights Studies
The Human Rights Studies program at Columbia University has a unique international reputation for human rights education and research, earned through decades of highly respected training of human rights professionals and a commitment to the interdisciplinary study and practice of human rights.

Bioethics
Join the Bioethics programme offered by Columbia University and Advance Healthcare and Your Career.
Teaching of English (InSTEP)
The Teaching of English (InSTEP) program at Columbia University is geared toward in-service teachers who wish to further their teaching, research, and leadership skills while remaining full-time teachers in their communities.
Dental Medicine and Business Administration
Individuals pursuing this Dental Medicine and Business Administration program at Columbia University receive thorough foundations in the basic biological sciences and clinical dentistry and gain invaluable insights into the financial considerations and managerial aspects of health care organizations, preparing them to assume leadership roles in the health care industry.
Community Health Education
The Community Health Education programme from Columbia University is grounded in the belief that community-level social-environmental structures and organizations play a key role in determining the health of the people.
Germanic Languages
Established in 1890, the department at Columbia University offers a broad range of courses on Germanic Languages and is designed to provide students with a solid grounding in their areas of interest.
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.
Divinity and Social Work
The Divinity and Social Work programme from Columbia University provides students with an integrated understanding of spiritual and social contexts.
Slavic Cultures
Students with a cultural interest in Russia or Eastern Europe may apply for the MA program in Slavic Cultures, housed in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University.