Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest and most distinguished graduate schools in the United States. Its Ph.D. and Master’s students acquire advanced knowledge and skills in specific disciplines in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences and in multidisciplinary scholarly pursuits. In preparing its students for a variety of careers in the twenty-first century, GSAS recognizes a dual obligation to encourage responsible scholarly research by students and faculty and to connect graduate education across the disciplines appropriately to urban, national, and global environments. We seek not only to develop the intellectual abilities of our students but also to create a diverse community of scholars, promoting the integration of graduate students into both the research and educational missions of Columbia University.

Degrees Awarded

Free-standing Master’s degrees are awarded in African-American Studies; American Studies; Anthropology; Art History and Archaeology; Biotechnology; Classical Studies; Classics; Climate and Society; Conservation Biology; Dental Sciences; Earth and Environmental Science - Journalism; East Asia: Regional Studies; East Asian Languages and Cultures; East Asian Studies; English and Comparative Literature; French and Romance Philology; French Cultural Studies in a Global Context; Germanic Languages; Human Rights Studies; Islamic Studies; Italian; Japanese Pedagogy; Jewish Studies; Mathematics of Finance; Medieval Studies; Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures; Modern Art; Critical and Curatorial Studies; Modern European Studies; Museum Anthropology; Music; Oral History;* Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Philosophy. Political Science; Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences; Religion; Religion and Journalism; Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe: Regional Studies; Russian Translation; Slavic Cultures; Slavic Languages; Sociology; South Asian Studies; Spanish and Portuguese; Statistics.

Dual Master’s degrees:

Master of Science (London School of Economics) and M.A. in International and World History*

Master of Public Administration (Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs) and M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Master of Science and Technology in Applied Mathematics (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) and M.A. in Mathematics of Finance.*

*Pending state approval.

Ph.D. degrees are awarded in Anthropology; Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics; Architecture; Art History and Archaeology; Astronomy; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Informatics; Biostatistics; Business; Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies; Chemical Engineering; Chemical Physics; Chemistry; Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Classical Studies; Classics; Communications; Computer Science; Earth and Environmental Engineering; Earth and Environmental Sciences; East Asian Languages and Cultures; Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; Economics; Education (Arts and Humanities; English Education History and Education; Philosophy and Education; Teaching of Social Studies; Biobehavioral Studies; Speech-Language Pathology; Counseling and Clinical Psychology; Counseling and Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Health and Behavior Studies; Special Education; Human Development; Developmental Psychology; Human Cognition and Learning; Measurement Evaluation; Sociology and Education; International and Transcultural Studies; Anthropology and Education; Applied Anthropology; Comparative and International Education; Economics and Education; Mathematics, Science, and Technology; Mathematical Education; Science Education; Organizational Leadership; Educational Administration; Higher Education; Politics and Education; Research in Adult Education; Social-Organizational Psychology) Electrical Engineering; English and Comparative Literature; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology; French and Romance Philology; Genetics and Development; Germanic Languages; History; Industrial Engineering and Operations Research; Italian; Mathematics; Mechanical Engineering; Microbiology; Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures; Music; Neurobiology and Behavior; Nutrition; Pharmacology; Philosophy; Physics; Physiology and Cellular Biophysics; Political Science; Psychology; Religion; Slavic Languages; Social Work; Sociology; Sociomedical Sciences; Spanish and Portuguese; Sustainable Development; Statistics; Theatre; Urban Planning.

Dual doctoral degrees:

M.D. and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Informatics; Cell Biology and Pathobiology; Chemistry; Epidemiology; Genetics and Development; Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies; Microbiology; Neurobiology and Behavior; Nutrition; Pharmacology; Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, or Statistics.

J.D. and Ph.D. in Economics; History; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; or Sociology.