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.
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
The MArch degree program is designed for students interested in:
- design and analysis...
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The MFA program in art with a concentration in digital technology combines technological and...
Students in the MA program in art with a concentration in art education investigate issues in...
The MA in art with a concentration in art history is a comprehensive degree program designed to...
The ASU School of Art's MFA program provides artists with both a formal and a conceptual...
This certificate program in community engaged design and the arts places designers, artists,...
The MM program in composition with a concentration in interdisciplinary digital media is...
The DMA program in music with a concentration in conducting offers emerging conductors the...
Creative enterprise and cultural leadership students are changemakers and innovators working...
The MFA program in dance with a concentration in interdisciplinary digital media and performance...
This program equips students with the practical and theoretical knowledge, skills and...
The ASU MFA program in dance is normally accomplished during three years of residency.
The...
The MSD program with a concentration in experience design focuses on design practices for...
The MSD with a concentration in visual communication design is a degree program meant for...
The PhD in design, environment and the arts with a concentration in design is a flexible,...
The PhD program in design, environment and the arts with a concentration in digital culture in...
The health care and healing environments concentration under the PhD program in design,...
The history, theory and criticism concentration within the PhD program in design, environment...
The PhD in design, environment and the arts is an individualized, institute-wide,...
The MA program in digital culture is geared toward practitioners of design and the arts who have...
The MA program in music with a concentration in ethnomusicology helps students develop skills in...
The MA in global affairs and management is a transdisciplinary degree program that covers all...
The MID in industrial design is a studio-based program in which students learn to design new...
The MSD program in industrial design is meant for individuals interested in advanced studies in...
The MS program in innovation and venture development integrates the most advanced practices and...
The MIA is a studio-based degree program that provides a focused experience for students with an...
The MLA program is designed to enable students to work with communities in planning and design...
The MS program in media arts and sciences with a concentration in extended reality technologies...
The MS program in media arts and sciences is designed for practitioners and makers in design and...
Media arts and sciences is a PhD program housed in the transdisciplinary School of Arts, Media...
The DMA program in music with a concentration in interdisciplinary digital media is a unique...
The PhD in music with a concentration in music learning and teaching is a world-class...
In the MA program in music, faculty members provide and participate in multisensory learning...
The PhD program in music with a concentration in musicology focuses on the scholarly study of...
The DMA in music with a concentration in music composition is a comprehensive professional...
The MM program in composition focuses on the development of skills required for a career in...
Music entrepreneurship is a discipline that intersects the traditional music disciplines. Music...
The MM program in music learning and teaching is designed for music educators, teaching artists...
The DMA in music with a concentration in performance is a professional degree program for...
The MM program in performance concentrates on the performance and teaching of music with an...
This certificate in music theory pedagogy offers specialized study in music theory to help...
The MM program in music therapy provides students with graduate-level study in the theory,...
In the MA program in narrative and emerging media, students learn how to tell stories that aren'...
The MM in performance with a concentration in conducting presents conductors of orchestras or...
The MM degree program in voice, music theatre and opera performance provides intensive practical...
The MM program in performance with a concentration in performance pedagogy concentrates on the...
The MM program in performance with a concentration in collaborative piano gives students the...
The MFA in theatre with a concentration in directing is a program for students who demonstrate...
The concentration in dramatic writing under the MFA in theatre includes coursework in...
Digital media as a way of making and thinking about art and experience is a growing importance...
The PhD in theatre with a concentration in theatre and performance of the Americas trains...
The MFA program in theatre with a concentration in performance focuses on cultivating the actor-...
The internationally recognized theatre for youth and community MFA program features...
The internationally recognized PhD program in theatre with a concentration in theatre for youth...
The MA program in theatre introduces students to graduate study in the field of theatre and...
The MUD is a transdisciplinary post-professional graduate program in The Design School which...
The MVCD is a studio-based degree program.
Students in this program work on strategic...
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.