M.A. in Museum Studies

University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco offers a unique master’s degree in museum studies. Our program prepares students for leadership positions in artistic, cultural, and heritage organizations that operate in a constantly changing social dynamic. Our sixteen-month curriculum is flexible and can be tailored to fit students’ diverse academic interests. The Museum Studies MA program provides students with the comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience to assume a variety of roles at museums, historic societies, cultural nonprofits, and heritage organizations. The 32-unit Master in Museum Studies program emphasizes social justice and curatorial practice education and new technologies collections management and heritage preservation non-profit and museum management financial and project management and museums and the law.Students complete the 32-unit, full-time, on-campus program in 16 months, including three semesters of coursework and a required internship. In the fall semester of their second year students harness the knowledge, experience, and skills they have acquired during their first year and channel them into a four-unit museum capstone paper or project on a relevant museum studies topic of their choosing.