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

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Graduate degrees

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Architecture (Energy Perf/Climate Responsive Arch), MS (MS)

The MS program in architecture with a concentration in energy performance and climate-responsive...

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Architecture, MArch (MARCH)

The MArch degree program is designed for students interested in:

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Art (Digital Technology), MFA (MFA)

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

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Art Education, MA (MA)

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

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Art History, MA (MA)

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

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Art, MFA (MFA)

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

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Composition (Interdisciplinary Digital Media), MM (MM)

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

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Conducting, DMA (DMA)

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

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Creative Enterprise and Cultural Leadership, MA (MA)

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

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Dance (Interdisciplinary Digital Media and Perform.), MFA (MFA)

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

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Dance Teaching Artist Praxis (Graduate Certificate) (Certificate)

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

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Dance, MFA (MFA)

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

The...

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Design (Visual Communication Design), MSD (MSD)

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

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Design, Environment and the Arts (Design), PhD (PHD)

The PhD program is a flexible, interdisciplinary program that permits designers to develop the...

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Design, Environment and the Arts (Digital Culture in Design), PhD (PHD)

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

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Design, Environment and the Arts (Healthcare and Healing Environments), PhD (PHD)

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

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Design, Environment and the Arts (History, Theory, and Criticism), PhD (PHD)

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

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Design, Environment and the Arts, PhD (PHD)

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

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Digital Culture, MA (MA)

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

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Digital Culture, MS (MS)

The MS program in digital culture is designed for practitioners and makers in design and the...

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Ethnomusicology, MA (MA)

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

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Healthcare and Healing Environments (MSD)
Healthcare and Healing Environments, MSD (MSD)

The MSD program with a concentration in design of health care and healing environments is...

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Industrial Design, MID (MID)

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

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Industrial Design, MSD (MSD)

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

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Innovation and Venture Development, MS (MS)

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

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Interior Architecture, MIA (MIA)

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

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Interior Design, MSD (MSD)

The MSD in interior design is a research program that allows students to deeply investigate how...

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Landscape Architecture, MLA (MLA_ASU)

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

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Media Arts and Sciences, PhD (PHD)

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

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Music (Interdisciplinary Digital Media), DMA (DMA)

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

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Music (Music Learning and Teaching), PhD (PHD)

The PhD in music with a concentration in music learning and teaching is a scholarly research...

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Music (Musicology), MA (MA)

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

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Music (Musicology), PhD (PHD)

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

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Music Composition, DMA (DMA)

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

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Music Composition, MM (MM)

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

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Music Entrepreneurship (Graduate Certificate) (Certificate)

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

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Music Learning and Teaching, MM (MM)

The MM program in music learning and teaching is designed for individuals interested in music...

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Music Performance, DMA (DMA)

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

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Music Performance, MM (MM)

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

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Music Theory Pedagogy (Graduate Certificate) (Certificate)

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

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Music Therapy, MM (MM)

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

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Performance (Conducting), MM (MM)

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

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Performance (Voice, Music Theatre, Opera), MM (MM)

The MM program in voice, music theatre and opera performance provides students the opportunity...

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Performance Pedagogy, MM (MM)

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

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Piano, Collaborative, MM (MM)

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

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Socially Engaged Practice in Design and the Arts (Graduate Certificate) (Certificate)

This certificate program in socially engaged practice in design and the arts places designers,...

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Theatre (Directing), MFA (MFA)

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

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Theatre (Dramatic Writing), MFA (MFA)

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

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Theatre (Interdisciplinary Digital Media), MFA (MFA)

A concentration of the MFA in theatre, the interdisciplinary digital media program focuses on...

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Theatre (Performance America), PhD (PHD)

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

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Theatre (Performance), MFA (MFA)

The MFA program in theatre with a concentration in performance reenvisions the role of the...

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Theatre (Theatre for Youth and Community), PhD (PHD)

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

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Theatre for Youth, MFA (MFA)

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

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Theatre, MA (MA)

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

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Urban Design, MUD (MUD)

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

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Visual Communication Design, MVCD (MVCD)

The MVCD is a studio-based degree program.

Students in this program work on strategic...

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