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14 Master's degrees offered by the university
Data Journalism
Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting and analyzing data for storytelling, presentation and investigative reporting. Columbia University's journalism school offers a Master of Science in Data Journalism for students interested in advanced skills.

Strategic Communication
The Master of Science in Strategic Communication Columbia University is designed to respond to the urgent need for strategic perspectives, critical thinking, and exceptional communication skills at all levels of the workplace and across all types of organizations.
Journalism
Students in the Journalism master's program at Columbia University are on the street reporting from day one, learning to think critically and act ethically. Classes are small, instructors give students intensive feedback and the pass-fail grading policy fosters collaboration.
Technology, Media and Communications
The Technology, Media and Communications program at Columbia University is for those interested in digital technology and writing skills as well as internet governance, communication, and the role of the media in advocacy, development, and human rights.
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.
Religion-Journalism
This special Religion-Journalism program at Columbia University enables a small number of qualified candidates to receive two master's degree, one from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism (MS) and the other from the Department of Religion (MA), in two years of study.
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.
Instructional Technology and Media
The Instructional Technology and Media program at Columbia University examines the relationship between the design of technology, digital media, cultural context, social interaction, and learning. Courses provide extensive exposure to theories of cognition and design, as well as deep dives into applications of these theories in practice.
Russian Translation
The Russian Translation programme from Columbia University is intended for graduate students who are primarily interested in working as translators and leads only to the freestanding M.A. degree.
Writing - Literary Translation
The Writing - Literary Translation program at Columbia University offers all Writing students the opportunity to pursue coursework in literary translation as part of their studies.
Journalism and Computer Science
The Journalism and Computer Science program at Columbia University seeks applicants with outstanding undergraduate records, including a strong background in computer science, extensive mathematics or engineering training.
Journalism and International Public Affairs
The Journalism and International Public Affair program at Columbia University is leading to the degrees of Master of Science in Journalism and Master of International Affairs
Instructional Technology and Media
The Instructional Technology and Media program at Columbia University examines the relationship between the design of technology, digital media, cultural context, social interaction, and learning. Courses provide extensive exposure to theories of cognition and design, as well deep dives into applications of these theories in practice.
Journalism - Investigative
Candidates for the Master of Science degree are able to pursue this Journalism - Investigative program at Columbia University, which is platform-neutral and is taken in addition to the traditional M.S. curriculum