Graduate degree programs

At the ASU Herberger Institute, you will have access to a quality education, which will support you in imagining and achieving your professional goals.

Home / Degree Programs / Graduate

Graduate Students at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Explore our graduate degree programs

The ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts offers more than 70 graduate degrees and concentrations in our five schools. Whether you practice music, architecture, dance, theatre, design, visual art or other disciplines, creative excellence requires both a mastery of your field and the development of your own creative expression. At ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts you will excel, innovate and thrive.

Graduate degrees

Architecture drawing

The MArch degree program is designed for students interested in:

  • design and analysis...
    Available online:
    Yes
Digital technology project

The MFA program in art with a concentration in digital technology combines technological and...

Available online:
No
Teaching children to work with clay

Students in the MA program in art with a concentration in art education investigate issues in...

Available online:
No
art_degree_art_history_ma.jpg

The MA in art with a concentration in art history is a comprehensive degree program designed to...

Available online:
No
Student painting
Art, MFA (MFA)

The ASU School of Art's MFA program provides artists with both a formal and a conceptual...

Available online:
No
Community gathered to see the socially engage students performance

This certificate program in community engaged design and the arts places designers, artists,...

Available online:
No
Digital culture, student projecting work

The MM program in composition with a concentration in interdisciplinary digital media is...

Available online:
No
Female music student conducting

The DMA program in music with a concentration in conducting offers emerging conductors the...

Available online:
No
Dean Tepper sitting with students

Creative enterprise and cultural leadership students are changemakers and innovators working...

Available online:
No
Feet dancing on a blue floor

The MFA program in dance with a concentration in interdisciplinary digital media and performance...

Available online:
No

This program equips students with the practical and theoretical knowledge, skills and...

Available online:
No
Dancer

The ASU MFA program in dance is normally accomplished during three years of residency.

The...

Available online:
No
Student wearing VR headset and flight stick

The MSD program with a concentration in experience design focuses on design practices for...

Available online:
No
Text on chalkboard

The MSD with a concentration in visual communication design is a degree program meant for...

Available online:
No
Drawings and project ideas

The PhD in design, environment and the arts with a concentration in design is a flexible,...

Available online:
No
Abstract drawing

The PhD program in design, environment and the arts with a concentration in digital culture in...

Available online:
No
Bookshelf with many books

The health care and healing environments concentration under the PhD program in design,...

Available online:
No
Abstract project

The history, theory and criticism concentration within the PhD program in design, environment...

Available online:
No
Architecture drawings

The PhD in design, environment and the arts is an individualized, institute-wide,...

Available online:
No
Student is explaining the new technology in headphones

The MA program in digital culture is geared toward practitioners of design and the arts who have...

Available online:
No
Bonang, traditional musical instrument

The MA program in music with a concentration in ethnomusicology helps students develop skills in...

Available online:
No
Student holding a design project

The MID in industrial design is a studio-based program in which students learn to design new...

Available online:
No
image of a story telling method

The MSD program in industrial design is meant for individuals interested in advanced studies in...

Available online:
No
Students working at innovation venture in the Design School

The MS program in innovation and venture development integrates the most advanced practices and...

Available online:
No
modern design work

The MIA is a studio-based degree program that provides a focused experience for students with an...

Available online:
No
Landscape architect at work with a pencil and a model

The MLA program is designed to enable students to work with communities in planning and design...

Available online:
No

The MS program in media arts and sciences with a concentration in extended reality technologies...

Available online:
No

The MS program in media arts and sciences is designed for practitioners and makers in design and...

Available online:
No
Abstract image

Media arts and sciences is a PhD program housed in the transdisciplinary School of Arts, Media...

Available online:
No
Sound control device

The DMA program in music with a concentration in interdisciplinary digital media is a unique...

Available online:
No
Students and faculty studying music

The PhD in music with a concentration in music learning and teaching is a world-class...

Available online:
No
ASU school of Music faculty reviewing notes with students

In the MA program in music, faculty members provide and participate in multisensory learning...

Available online:
No
School of Music students studying

The PhD program in music with a concentration in musicology focuses on the scholarly study of...

Available online:
No
Student playing the violin

The DMA in music with a concentration in music composition is a comprehensive professional...

Available online:
No
Music notes

The MM program in composition focuses on the development of skills required for a career in...

Available online:
No
Music Entrepreneurship (Graduate Certificate)

Music entrepreneurship is a discipline that intersects the traditional music disciplines. Music...

Available online:
No
School of Music faculty teaches students how to play the flute

The MM program in music learning and teaching is designed for music educators, teaching artists...

Available online:
No
Abstract image

The DMA in music with a concentration in performance is a professional degree program for...

Available online:
No
Music performance, student playing the French horn

The MM program in performance concentrates on the performance and teaching of music with an...

Available online:
No

This certificate in music theory pedagogy offers specialized study in music theory to help...

Available online:
No
Playing the guitar

The MM program in music therapy provides students with graduate-level study in the theory,...

Available online:
No
ASU Student and virtual reality

In the MA program in narrative and emerging media, students learn how to tell stories that aren'...

Available online:
No
Music conductor holding his baton

The MM in performance with a concentration in conducting presents conductors of orchestras or...

Available online:
No
ASU students in a music opera performance

The MM degree program in voice, music theatre and opera performance provides intensive practical...

Available online:
No
Students playing the cello

The MM program in performance with a concentration in performance pedagogy concentrates on the...

Available online:
No
Playing the piano

The MM program in performance with a concentration in collaborative piano gives students the...

Available online:
No
Theatre performance

The MFA in theatre with a concentration in directing is a program for students who demonstrate...

Available online:
No
Theatre student smiling and holding a laptop

The concentration in dramatic writing under the MFA in theatre includes coursework in...

Available online:
No
Theatre Students with digital media

Digital media as a way of making and thinking about art and experience is a growing importance...

Available online:
No
Theatre performance, female carrying a blue flag

The PhD in theatre with a concentration in theatre and performance of the Americas trains...

Available online:
No
Students performing

The MFA program in theatre with a concentration in performance focuses on cultivating the actor-...

Available online:
No
ASU theatre students talking

The internationally recognized theatre for youth and community MFA program features...

Available online:
No
Student practicing a theatre performance

The internationally recognized PhD program in theatre with a concentration in theatre for youth...

Available online:
No
Performance, people in white costumes

The MA program in theatre introduces students to graduate study in the field of theatre and...

Available online:
No
Urban design project

The MUD is a transdisciplinary post-professional graduate program in The Design School which...

Available online:
No
Graphic design student at work

The MVCD is a studio-based degree program.

Students in this program work on strategic...

Available online:
No

Graduate degrees for careers of the future

A suite of our transdiciplinary graduate degrees prepare students for the careers of the future. Master skills like augmented reality and experience design, machine learning and artificial intelligence, game design and virtual production, combined with innovation and entrepreneurship, creative practice and civic impact.

Learn more