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458 Master's degrees in Design in United States
Advanced Architectural Design
The Advanced Architectural Design MAAD degree offered at University of Texas at Austin is a design-oriented program that offers students with an accredited B. Arch. degree the resources for personal and professional growth in an area of concentration of their choosing under the guidance of a faculty mentor.
Production Design
The M.F.A. in Production Design offered by Chapman University is an intensive hands-on two-year program designed to equip production designers with the latest conceptual and practical skills needed to succeed and thrive as professional designers in the film and television industry.
Lighting Design
The School of Drama graduate Lighting Design option from Carnegie Mellon University is an integrated, hands-on, three-year program that teaches practical, theoretical and conceptual approaches for lighting design and technology.
Design Leadership
To succeed in business, you must embrace the opportunity to look at things differently. The Design Leadership degree at Maryland Institute College of Art is rooted in the philosophy that the best business minds are open ones.
Design and Innovation
The collaborative Master of Science in Design and Innovation at the University of Wisconsin Madison integrates aspects of design techniques and tools from multiple perspectives, including engineering, design thinking, business, visualization, social science, art and more.
Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors
We integrate instruction with relevant research on textile fiber and polymer science, merchandising and international trade, consumer behavior, historic and cultural aspects of dress and textiles, and design solutions for residential interiors. We offer a master degree in Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors at the University of Georgia.
History of Design and Curatorial Studies
This History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA program offered by The New School is offered jointly by Parsons and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, brings an object-focused, practice-based approach to the study of European and American decorative arts and design dating from the Renaissance to the present.
Technical Direction
Technical production encompasses the design, construction and implementation of scenery using a wide array of technologies, materials and techniques. Apply now for this Technical Direction program from West Virginia University.
Public Interest Design
The Public Interest Design Postgraduate Certificate from Portland State University prepares future leaders in architecture, urban planning, sustainability, community development, and other fields to aid currently underserved populations through human-centered design methods rooted in the "triple bottom line" of sustainability (social, environmental, and economic).
Health Systems and Facilities Design
The Health Systems and Facilities Designs graduate certificate from Kent State University explores emerging trends in the functional, therapeutic and financial aspects of ever-evolving health care facility design.
Ceramics
The Ceramics at Temple University will explore the expansive practices of clay as both a historic and contemporary material.
Intermedia and Photography
The Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia and Photography from West Virginia University is a terminal degree in studio art. Our selective and limited enrollment ensures regular individual contact with dedicated, diverse faculty who are committed to a sustained professional exchange with each student.

Art - Ceramics
The Art - Ceramics programme at California State University Fullerton features a rigorous studio programme for the serious, responsible and talented student. The curriculum and faculty challenge students to focus on the goal of becoming professional artists.
Design Housing and Merchandising - Digital Design
The Design Housing and Merchandising - Digital Design from Oklahoma State University engages students in theoretical frameworks, methods and critical media practice related to computational, interactive media focusing on design.
Design Research, Writing and Criticism
Whether your background is in design, journalism, science, history or something else entirely, the Design Research, Writing and Criticism program at School of Visual Arts might just be the next step in your career trajectory.
Resilient Urban Design
Resilient Urban Design from Clemson University is a 36-credit post-professional degree for graduates and professionals with prior design skills in architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning.
Design
The Design MFA program offered at University of Texas at Austin has been reconsidered to take utmost advantage of the department’s position inside one of the world’s best research institutions.
Architectural Research and Design
Our post-professional Master of Science in Architectural Research and Design degree program offered by Tulane University is the most advanced research venue at Tulane School of Architecture.
Architecture - Applied Research in Practice
Through a robust research and preparation-for-practice curriculum, the Architecture - Applied Research in Practice program of the University of Minnesota prepares students to assume leadership roles in anticipating, researching, and addressing emerging problems in the creation of resilient and equitable built environments.
Theatre - Costume Design
Illinois State University's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Theatre - Costume Design is dedicated to the development of the individual student to reach their professional goals in the field.