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Are you interested in gaining the professional training to become a newspaper reporter? Or a broadcast journalist? Or a podcast storyteller? Or a magazine writer? Or an investigative journalist? Or a business journalist? Or an international correspondent? Or an arts critic? Or a sports journalist? Or a science reporter? Or maybe a book author? As a student in Columbia Journalism School's Master of Science Program, you will enjoy a broad and flexible curriculum that provides a world-class education in the areas of journalism that matter to you, all while you receive essential training in reporting, multimedia storytelling, and ethics.
Students in Columbia's Master of Science (M.S.) Program are on the street reporting from day one, learning to think critically and act ethically as working journalists in New York, one of the world's most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities. Classes in the M.S. Program are small and Columbia's
faculty - made up of preeminent journalists with a range of expertise - give their students intensive feedback. The Journalism School's pass-fail grading policy fosters collaboration. The result: a grounding in the fundamental skills that helps our graduates stand out and makes a difference throughout their careers.
While Columbia does offer two M.S. specializations -
Documentary and
Investigative - the broader Master of Science Program does
not require that its applicants apply to study specific journalism mediums or subjects. The Master of Science Program provides a flexible curriculum that gives students the freedom to build professional skills in the areas of journalism that most resonate with them. And, students who are not in the
Documentary or
Investigative Specializations are still welcome to take M.S. Program classes that will deepen their skills as investigative journalists or video storytellers. Please click
here to learn more about the many areas of study - including Arts, Audio, Broadcast, Business, International, Investigative, Multimedia, Politics, Science, Video, and Writing - that you can explore as an M.S. student. And, please click on the following links to watch videos about some of the M.S. Program's
audio,
visual, and
writing classes.
In the spring semester, Master of Science Program students will customize their education by selecting two in-depth 15-week classes that give them the opportunity to gain professional skills and work samples in areas of journalism that they discover they are passionate about. Recent M.S. Program course offerings have included: "Video Newsroom: Broadcast," "Business Reporting," "Covering Race," "Magazine Writing," "Covering Climate," "Sports Reporting," "Covering Religion," "Multi-platform Storytelling," "Book Writing," "Radio Workshop," "Computational Journalism," "Data Visualization," "Journalist as Historian," "Covering Conflict," "Literary Journalism," "Covering Issues of Gender and Sexuality," "Human Rights Reporting," "Arts Criticism," "Investigating Health Care," "Information Warfare Reporting," "Telling True Stories in Sound," "The Journalism of Ideas," "Storytelling About the Environment," and "Covering American Politics." Please click
here to explore more of the classes offered in the M.S. Program.
Many paths can lead to the Master of Science Program. Columbia's M.S. Program is designed for a range of students, from those with little to no experience to those who have been working in the field for several years and want to enhance their skills in order to advance to a new level in the world of journalism. M.S. students come from across the United States and from all over the world. Some are recent college graduates and some have worked for several years in different professions. M.S. students also come from a range of undergraduate majors and from a variety of undergraduate institutions, such as large public universities, liberal arts colleges, private universities, historically Black colleges and universities, music and arts conservatories, and engineering and design schools. We welcome questions from potential M.S. applicants at
apply.journalism@columbia.edu.
"Choosing Columbia Journalism School was probably one of the best decisions I could have made for my career trajectory, not only because of the work I did and the tools that I got, but because of the people I met. The network there is immense. And after I got published in The New York Times, the amount of people from the J-School who reached out to me, and created a network with me was really awesome."
- Rachel Pilgrim, '20 M.S.
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Our application is now open and can be started here; the application deadline for the M.S. Program 2022-23 academic year is December 15, 2021. Please click here to learn more about the application requirements.