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45 Master's degrees offered by the university
Politics
The MA in Politics from The New School is a 30-credit program that introduces students to critical, historical, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of politics.
Architecture
The Architecture MArch program at The New School is a three-year NAAB-accredited professional degree for students holding a pre-professional undergraduate degree in architecture or a four-year non-architecture degree.
Transdisciplinary Design
The Transdisciplinary Design MFA program offered by The New School employs a collaborative, systems-oriented approach to design and social thought, emphasizing design-led research. This program functions as an academic laboratory in New York City where you develop creative practices to address emerging and complex challenges.
Media Management
The Media Management program offered by The New School provides a strong foundation of management principles and leadership skills for business professionals working or expecting to find work in the ever-changing global media landscape.
Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism
The 30-credit Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism MA program at The New School surveys traditional forms of book and magazine publishing while exploring the possibilities of new media, placing an emphasis on unorthodox and forward-looking forms.
Philosophy
The MA in Philosophy from The New School is a 30 credit program providing students with advanced training in the history of philosophy and in central areas of current philosophical inquiry. The program offers an optional specialized minor in Psychoanalysis.
Media Studies
The Master of Arts program in Media Studies from The New School offers a flexible and interdisciplinary curriculum in media theory and practice with an emphasis on the production of film, video, audio, and emerging media.
Arts Management and Entrepreneurship
This MA Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from The New School enables you to deepen your abilities as a performer while gaining knowledge and skills that prepare you for a diverse range of career options in performing arts management, arts administration, entrepreneurship, arts education, cultural policy and advocacy, and arts philanthropy.
Historical Studies
The Historical Studies MA program offered by The New School lays the foundation for all social inquiry and for informed debate on the politics and culture of our time.
Sociology
The MA in Sociology from The New School is a 30-credit program providing students with a thorough grounding in the historical, theoretical, and methodological development of sociology and gives students the tools to apply this knowledge in the world around them.
Documentary Media Studies
The Documentary Media Studies Postgrad. Cert. program offered by The New School is an intensive professional education program for prospective documentarians.
Fashion Studies
The Fashion Studies MA program offered at The New School investigates the material and visual dimensions of fashion as dress, image, and bodily practice and as a major cultural industry that positions the individual within society and the world.
Textiles
The Textiles MFA program offered by The New School was launched in 2018 and enables you to explore these dynamics creatively and reflectively, dissolving the boundaries between technology and craft.
Liberal Studies
The 30-credit MA in Liberal Studies from The New School offers practical writing tools and guided in-depth study in cross-disciplinary courses taught by renowned faculty, who share the values of rigorous critical inquiry and thoughtful expression.
Public and Urban Policy
The Master of Science in Public and Urban Policy from The New School prepares you to go out in the world-and change it.
Design and Technology
The Design and Technology MFA program offered at The New School provides a dynamic, challenging, and idea-driven environment in which to address these challenges.
Fine Arts
The Fine Arts MFA program offered at The New School is guided by the belief that artists perform an essential role in society. The program is rigorously interdisciplinary and enables you to develop diverse studio practices while pursuing related scholarship and research.
Communication Design
The Communication Design MPS program at The New School is tailored to practicing designers seeking to enhance their digital skills and leadership potential as well as professionals with relevant design experience who want to enter the field.
Industrial Design
The Industrial Design MFA program offered by The New School offers an innovative two-year, 60-credit full-time graduate curriculum that prepares students to negotiate the seemingly contradictory forces at play in the growing product design industry.
Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management
Students in the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management graduate program from The New School draw on these grassroots perspectives, forms of Indigenous knowledge, and community engagement to critically address social and ecological challenges affecting local and global populations.