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216 Master's degrees in Film Studies in United States
Documentary
The Department of Cinematic Arts and the Department of Journalism and Media Management at the University of Miami propose this MFA degree in Documentary. This new interdisciplinary degree will provide students with skills in non-fiction creative storytelling and knowledge in advanced production and distribution delivered across a range of platforms.
Expanded Media
In Expanded Media at University of Kansas, students are expected to engage in critical dialogue about art, technology, the nature of creativity, the role of the artist in society and other aspects of art as a professional practice. Issues of process, context and problem solving are inherent in the curriculum.
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.
Communication (Film and Video)
The Communication (Film and Video) MA program offered at Georgia State University prepares students for professional activities in all areas of film/video/digital imaging in which the school has emphasis (moving image production and moving image studies), as well as for continued advanced graduate work at the Ph.D. level.
Film and Television Directing
The Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television Directing at DePaul University is a highly selective program designed to cultivate a filmmaker’s voice through a rigorous filmmaking curriculum.
Film and Television
The Film and Television program at DePaul University emphasizes technical proficiency in the areas of Cinematography, post-production, and sound for the screen.
Art Studio
The Art Studio MFA program offered at University of South Carolina is a 60 credit, three-year program of study that allows students to pursue major and minor areas of concentration from among the following studio art areas: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, and sculpture (3D studies).
Theater
The Theater program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a dynamic, hands-on graduate program that teaches students how to collaborate successfully with fellow theater-makers, with a production season that serves as a teaching laboratory.
Theater Arts
Theater Arts from University of California, Santa Cruz welcomes artists and thinkers who challenge the theory, practice and spectatorship of the performing arts.
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.
Documentary Media Studies
The Documentary Media Studies Postgrad. Cert. program offered by The New School is an intensive professional education program for prospective documentarians.
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.
Art Studio
MFA Art Studio program at The City University of New York is a low-cost, comprehensive, studio-based graduate program focused on contemporary painting, sculpture, installation, digital media, critical theory, and social practice art
Filmmaking
University of North Carolina Wilmington’s MFA in Filmmaking is an immersive three-year terminal degree program that prepares students to be complete filmmakers. MFA students learn to create and compose moving images for a variety of artistic, expressive, and commercial purposes.
Media Scoring
When we match movies, music intensifies our emotions. Music weaves through narrative, living in the space between and around dialog. In this Media Scoring degree at The City University of New York, you’ll compose soundtracks from the perspective of storytellers, layering music with sound, and informed by visuals.
Documentary Expression
The Documentary Expression program from University of Mississippi is a two-year graduate program that combines coursework in Southern Studies and interdisciplinary fields with advanced training in photography, film, and audio production.
Film and Media Studies
The Film and Media Studies degree at the University of Pittsburgh will be granted only to students who have been admitted to the doctorate in Film and Media Studies but are subsequently unable to finish the program.
Design for Stage and Film
Planning a career as a designer for theatre, film, opera, dance, and television? The Design for Stage and Film MFA program from New York University will get you there.

Writing and Producing for Television
At its heart, the Writing and Producing for Television programme from the Long Island University (LIU) mirrors the real world of a TV writers room: In year one, students are presented with an idea for a TV series.
Digital Media and Storytelling
Digital Media and Storytelling from Loyola University Chicago is for makers. Makers of all forms of digital content who desire the tools to turn their ideas into compelling, marketable stories they can share with the world.