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23 Master's degrees offered by the university
Conducting
The Conducting MM program offered at University of Texas at Austin trains students in the artistic, technical, physical, and leadership skills required of successful conductors at the professional and post-secondary levels. Intensive coursework in conducting, score study, analysis, musicology, and theory is combined with regular opportunities to conduct university ensembles.
Screenwriting
The Screenwriting MFA program from University of Texas at Austin is a two-year (including one summer), 45-hour program designed for creative individuals with a strong commitment to storytelling for the screen.
Historic Preservation
The Historic Preservation MSc program from University of Texas at Austin provides students with an introduction to advanced studies in historic preservation and is a prerequisite for the Ph.D. program.
Humanities, Health and Medicine
The MA Humanities, Health and Medicine program is a good fit for anyone excited about intersections of humanities, health, and medicine who also wishes to hone their skills as writers, researchers, and critical thinkers while gaining a Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Theatre - Directing
The Theatre - Directing MFA program offered at University of Texas at Austin is a vital, ascendant, highly selective professional training program targeted to mid-career theatre artists of proven expertise who embrace the evolving role of the 21st century director.
Writing
The Michener Center for Writers MFA in Writing is a three-year, fully funded residency program with a unique interdisciplinary focus. While writers apply and are admitted in a primary genre—fiction, poetry, playwriting or screenwriting—they also study a secondary genre during their time at the University of Texas at Austin.
Bilingual or Bicultural Education
The Bilingual or Bicultural Education MA/MEd program from University of Texas at Austin provides expertise for students to become leaders in a field of growing importance.
Linguistics
The Linguistics MA program from University of Texas at Austin is providing a thorough grounding in five core areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and field methods.
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies MA program from University of Texas at Austin is a two-year multidisciplinary program that offers advanced training for those qualified students who seek an integrated knowledge of the language, history, society and culture of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Information Studies and Middle Eastern Studies
The Information Studies and Middle Eastern Studies MSIS/MA program offered at University of Texas at Austin trains professionals who combine expertise in three important knowledge domains: library and information work, the cultures and societies of the Middle East, and North African and Middle Eastern languages.
Religious Studies
The Religious Studies MA program from University of Texas at Austin is dedicated to the study of religious phenomena within particular cultural and historical contexts.
New Writers Project - Creative Writing
The New Writers Project - Creative Writing MFA program offered at University of Texas at Austin is a small, fully funded, three-year studio program within the large and highly-ranked Department of English.
Comparative Literature
The Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin has as its goal the cultivation of multilingual and multicultural critical understanding and literacy.
Architectural History
The Architectural History MA program from University of Texas at Austin offers an innovative and diverse curriculum that seeks to foster a critical understanding of architecture, the built environment, and the landscape.
Classics
The Classics MA program from University of Texas at Austin is designed to prepare students for vigorous academic careers in Classics and associated fields.
Theatre - Performance as Public Practice
The Theatre - Performance as Public Practice MA/MFA program offered at University of Texas at Austin focuses on the historical development, cultural and theoretical contexts, and artistic significance of theatre, dance and performance disciplines and institutions, as well as the interrelationships of these fields and the role of performance in public spheres.
Theatre - Playwriting
The Theatre - Playwriting is a vital and ascendant MFA program offered at University of Texas at Austin situated in a vibrant and non-traditional theatre city. This acclaimed three-year program combines a rigorous immersion in the tactical craft of playwriting with a bold and aesthetically diverse embrace of collaborative theatre models.
Latin American Studies
The Latin American Studies MA program from University of Texas at Austin provides outstanding interdisciplinary preparation for students planning a career grounded in the production of distinctive knowledge on a specific topic situated in Latin America, from a fundamentally interdisciplinary perspective.
Information Studies and English
The Information Studies and English MSIS/MA at University of Texas at Austin provides students an opportunity to gain skills that will qualify them to work as information specialists in important cultural repositories including archives, museums, libraries, together with a high level of specialized research competency that will serve them in careers as information professionals or academics.
History
The History MA program from University of Texas at Austin is designed primarily for students seeking to pursue the doctorate; only in exceptional circumstances do we admit students for the master's as a terminal degree.