The Carter School’s graduate certificates focus on the practical knowledge and skills critical to practitioners working to transform conflict in their organizations, communities, and around the world.
Carter Masters
The Carter School trains the next generation of conflict resolvers at the cutting-edge of the field. Our interdisciplinary approach and dedication to experiential learning provides students with the analytical and practical skills they need to pursue the resolution of conflicts at all levels of society.
Climate Dynamics
Earn a Climate Science Master’s or/and a Climate Dynamic PhD from one of the first Climate Dynamics programs in the country. Our internationally recognized scientists use numerical models and advanced statistics to simulate and analyze climate.
CHHS Bam programs
At the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS), students are prepared to become future leaders in health care, public health and social services, acquiring the necessary skills to solve the challenges of a rapidly changing and culturally diverse health environment. By combining research with community-engagement efforts, students receive a rigorous and relevant education, while simultaneously making a valuable contribution to the region’s health care workforce.
CHSS ALL
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences—the largest college on campus—houses programs spanning disciplines from philosophy to economics. Students benefit from concentrated faculty involvement in a traditional liberal arts college setting.
Higher Education
The Higher Education Program prepares new and mid-level professionals for careers in higher education at community colleges and 4-year institutions, as well as in associations, government agencies, and industries whose activities relate to or impact higher education.
CHSS Economics
George's Mason's nationally-ranked graduate economics programs are noted for their concentrations: experimental economics, Austrian economics, public choice, constitutional political economy, law and economics, and new institutional economics. We offer PHD and MA in Economics degrees and the Accelerated MA in Economics.
CEHD PhD
The PhD in Education program at George Mason University is designed to advance professional study to develop research-informed expertise in a selected field of professional education.
CEHD non-PhD
Find your path in the largest school of education in the Commonwealth, including programs in elementary, secondary, and early childhood education, leadership, policy, counseling, and many other areas.
CEHD Sport
This program prepares students who wish to serve their communities as industry professionals as well as those who plan on pursuing advanced study in these disciplines with an aim toward future careers in academia.
CEC All
CEC offers students connections to and opportunities with some of the nation's top tech firms. Our graduate programs prepare students to become leaders who use their knowledge of engineering and computing to tackle programs and find solutions that create a safer, cleaner, and more just and prosperous world. Join us to learn more.
CEC Bam
CEC offers undergraduate students opportunity to pursue a master's degree through an accelerated program and begin taking graduate courses as early as their junior year. Join us to learn more.
CEC Civil
The Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE) is an internationally recognized program leading the expansion of knowledge on developing sustainable cities and villages. CEIE offers MS and PhD programs educating students in the theory and practice of civil engineering science and design.
CEC Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science offers four MS programs in Computer Science, Information Security Assurance, and Software Engineering. These prepare students for all types of careers in the fast-growing and high-paying software industry. The Department also offers a PhD in Computer Science to prepare students for research careers, academic careers, and executive leadership positions in software companies and government agencies.
Data Analytics
The mission of the CEC multidisciplinary Data Analytics Engineering (DAEN) program is to provide knowledge and experience across a broad range of data analytics algorithms, tools, processes, and focus on a flexible and broad set of courses to be used by graduates for solving a wide range of real-world problems.
Digital Forensics
Digital forensics is a discipline addressing the collection, processing, and analysis of digital data for the purpose of verifying/validating the existence of an event of investigation, intelligence, cyber, or business interest. Telecommunications offers a blend of cutting-edge practice-oriented courses in networking engineering, cloud computing, wireless communications, and cyber security.
CEC Electrical
Computer engineering involves knowledge of hardware development for embedded and general-purpose systems, including those found in smartphones, cards, appliances, smart factories, satellites, and the Internet of Things. Electrical engineering covers a variety of topics including wireless communications, computer networks, signal processing, machine learning, control systems, robotics, bioengineering, space-based systems, nanoelectronics, and smart grid.
CEC IST
The mission of IST is to be a leader in producing high quality graduates by providing outstanding education in the emerging areas of information science and technology, leveraging innovative instructional methods, and with an emphasis on enhanced student experience. Its research areas focus on cyber security, machine learning, natural language processing, big data and data analytics, cyber human systems, and IT management.
CEC IT
The Information Technology (INFT) PhD is a signature degree of CEC. It focuses on science, engineering, and technology of information processing, an area of study ripe for innovation in a world driven more and more by data. The program accommodates a rigorous and cross-disciplinary PhD study and includes several concentrations to provide program focus.
CEC Mechanical
The PhD in Information Technology with a concentration in mechanical engineering features courses of study and research in the fluid/thermal sciences, solid mechanics, materials, environmental processes, and nanotechnology.
CEC DOIL
DOIL is committed to building an inclusive environment, where students, faculty and staff feel safe and supported. We work to foster a sense of belonging for all individuals within CEC and we facilitate student, faculty, and staff's access to educational and professional-development opportunities that empower them to develop and leverage their own agency.
CEC Biostatistics
The graduate programs of the Statistics Department include PhD in Statistical Science, MS in Statistical Science, MS in Biostatistics, and Applied Statistics Graduate Certificate, to train next-general statisticians and data scientists (SDS).
Systems Engineering
SEOR offers a master's degree in systems engineering, a master's in operations research, and a PhD in systems engineering and operations research. SEOR offers a concentration in predictive analytics and a concentration in financial engineering within the school-wide master's degree in data analytics engineering, as well as a dual master's degree in operations research and master's degree in statistical science jointly with the Statistics Department.
COS Academic Affairs
The College of Science at George Mason University blends traditional science education with sought-after programs in molecular medicine, climate dynamics, planetary science, forensic science, environmental studies, and geoinformation science to prepare students for exciting careers at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary scientific domains.
COS Computational
Computational & Data Science graduate programs within the College of Science are dedicated towards the application of data science in interdisciplinary fields, using accurate data models to explain and predict observable phenomena in all walks of society.
CVPA Grad Programs
The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is dedicated to advancing the study, creation, performance, and exhibition of the arts, acting on a strong belief in their transformative influence on individual and societies.
CVPA BAM
The College of Visual and Performing Arts offers several options for our undergraduate students to start working on their Master's degree while completing their Bachelor's degree. Completing one of these degree paths opens doors throughout the world of the visual and performing arts, where graduates can pursue careers as performing artists, entrepreneurs, gallery directors, curators, managing directors, professors, artistic directors, teachers, and more!
CHSS Crim
The department is internationally renowned for its applied research in policing, courts, and corrections, with particular emphases in organizational change, community partnerships, crime and place, rehabilitation and recidivism, and social justice. The department's multidisciplinary faculty has a wide-range of expertise—including in law, sociology, psychology, political science, and criminology—which gives students a rich variety of perspectives.
COS Environmental Science
he Department of Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) at George Mason University believes that addressing existing and emerging environmental challenges requires diverse knowledge and expertise in natural science, social science, and public policy. Our faculty and programs reflect the need for a transdisciplinary approach to environmental science, conservation, and sustainability.
CHHS Global Health
The Department of Global and Community Health offers accredited undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level degree programs in public health. We prepare students to make a difference in the health of communities.
COS Math
The department of Mathematical Sciences offers graduate PhD and MS degrees in both pure and applied mathematics.
CHHS Nutrition
The master of science in nutrition program emphasizes a skillset tailored to expanding nutrition-related needs. Students learn to assess, evaluate, and intervene in the most current and relevant nutrition issues. The curriculum prepares graduates to work for agencies, businesses, and organizations that seek to improve nutrition at the local, national, and global level.
CHSS Psychology
The Department of Psychology strives to generate new psychological knowledge and promote the application of knowledge in ways that enhance human potential for all individuals. We do this through our own research and our deep commitment to the mentorship of the next generation of psychologists, in an inclusive environment where all are valued and can thrive.
CHSS Sociology
The Graduate Program in Sociology focuses on linking public sociology and applied research. Public and applied sociology calls for sociologists to bring the distinct skills of the discipline to bear on matters of great public concern within academic, policy, and applied research settings.
COS Geology
We offer a multidisciplinary degree in Earth Systems Science, which focuses on courses in both geology and geography. The geology program in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Scientists is active in cutting-edge research in all aspects of the Earth system.
COS George Squared
GeorgeSquared (Advanced Biomedical Sciences) is a partnership between George Mason and Georgetown Universities that offers a nine-month pre-health preparatory, graduate-level program designed to help qualify students for medical, dental, or other health professional schools.
Global Affairs
The Global Affairs graduate program and the Middle East and Islamic Studies graduate program both offer a rigorous curriculum of 30 multidisciplinary credits that provides graduate students with a global perspective and prepares them to enter today's fast-paced, interconnected world.
Health Informatics
Health informatics is a dynamically growing field combining advances in multiple disciplines spanning medicine, health care and policy, computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence.
Health Services Research
This post-master’s multidisciplinary program focuses on analytical and data-driven methods for the examination of social, political, economic, and technological forces that affect the organization, financing, delivery, and regulation of health care services and public health systems. Students in the program acquire the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to creatively examine complex public health challenges and health system problems.
English
With concentrations in Literature, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Professional Writing and Rhetoric, and the Teaching of Writing and Literature, the Mason English department offers master's degrees aimed to meet a wide range of intellectual and professional needs and interests.
MAIS
Interdisciplinary Studies offers a home for students with broad academic interests who seek a master's degree that will help them to create a better world. Our programs are multidisciplinary in nature, allowing students considerable freedom to tailor their degrees to their unique interests and professional goals, with many encouraging experiential learning opportunities in a professional setting of the student's own choosing.
Social Work
Mason’s Master of Social Work (MSW) program is committed to student centered learning to prepare professional social workers with the skills and knowledge to advance human rights and to promote well-being by ensuring economic, environmental, and social justice for all persons and communities. Students can apply to a fully online or an on-campus program
Creative Writing
Learn how to earn a terminal arts degree and a professional certification in a community that combines a top-ranked MFA program and a dynamic literary arts center.
Languages
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages offers interdisciplinary graduate programs in Spanish and French that allow you to deepen your cultural and linguistic expertise through courses on topics such as border studies, cultural studies, film, gender studies, heritage language education, history, language pedagogy, literature, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.
Schar BAM
The Schar School of Policy and Government (SCHAR)offers current Mason undergraduate students the ability to complete an accelerated master's through the BAM program. There are 6 program options at the Schar School that allow for BAM entry.
Schar Grad Programs
The Schar School of Policy and Government offers 7 master's degree programs, 11 certificate programs, and 3 PhD programs. Most programs are taught at the Mason Square (Arlington) Campus. Programs offered include: Biodefense (master's and PhD), Global Commerce and Policy, International Security, Public Administration, Public Policy (master's and PhD), Political Science (master's and PhD), and Organizational Development & Knowledge Management.
BUS Masters
The School of Business develops career-ready business graduates through rigorous, stimulating business programs based on a global perspective, industry demand, and leadership. Come learn about our specialized degrees including MS in Finance, MS in Accounting, MS in Business Analytics, and MS in Real Estate Development.
BUS BAM
The School of Business develops career-ready business graduates through rigorous, stimulating business programs based on a global perspective, industry demand, and leadership. Fast-track your master’s degree with our BAM programs in MS in Management, MS in Accounting, and MS in Finance.
BUS General
The School of Business develops career-ready business graduates through rigorous, stimulating business programs based on a global perspective, industry demand, and leadership. Come learn about our general business degrees including MS in Management and MBA.
Systems Biology
Systems Biology includes graduate programs in Biology, Biosciences, and Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. The Neuroscience, PhD program focuses on the study of the brain and addresses the challenge of developing an integrative understanding of cognition and higher brain function.
The Carter School’s graduate certificates focus on the practical knowledge and skills critical to practitioners working to transform conflict in their organizations, communities, and around the world.
Carter Masters
The Carter School trains the next generation of conflict resolvers at the cutting-edge of the field. Our interdisciplinary approach and dedication to experiential learning provides students with the analytical and practical skills they need to pursue the resolution of conflicts at all levels of society.
Climate Dynamics
Earn a Climate Science Master’s or/and a Climate Dynamic PhD from one of the first Climate Dynamics programs in the country. Our internationally recognized scientists use numerical models and advanced statistics to simulate and analyze climate.
CHHS Bam programs
At the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS), students are prepared to become future leaders in health care, public health and social services, acquiring the necessary skills to solve the challenges of a rapidly changing and culturally diverse health environment. By combining research with community-engagement efforts, students receive a rigorous and relevant education, while simultaneously making a valuable contribution to the region’s health care workforce.
CHSS ALL
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences—the largest college on campus—houses programs spanning disciplines from philosophy to economics. Students benefit from concentrated faculty involvement in a traditional liberal arts college setting.
Higher Education
The Higher Education Program prepares new and mid-level professionals for careers in higher education at community colleges and 4-year institutions, as well as in associations, government agencies, and industries whose activities relate to or impact higher education.
CHSS Economics
George's Mason's nationally-ranked graduate economics programs are noted for their concentrations: experimental economics, Austrian economics, public choice, constitutional political economy, law and economics, and new institutional economics. We offer PHD and MA in Economics degrees and the Accelerated MA in Economics.
CEHD PhD
The PhD in Education program at George Mason University is designed to advance professional study to develop research-informed expertise in a selected field of professional education.
CEHD non-PhD
Find your path in the largest school of education in the Commonwealth, including programs in elementary, secondary, and early childhood education, leadership, policy, counseling, and many other areas.
CEHD Sport
This program prepares students who wish to serve their communities as industry professionals as well as those who plan on pursuing advanced study in these disciplines with an aim toward future careers in academia.
CEC All
CEC offers students connections to and opportunities with some of the nation's top tech firms. Our graduate programs prepare students to become leaders who use their knowledge of engineering and computing to tackle programs and find solutions that create a safer, cleaner, and more just and prosperous world. Join us to learn more.
CEC Bam
CEC offers undergraduate students opportunity to pursue a master's degree through an accelerated program and begin taking graduate courses as early as their junior year. Join us to learn more.
CEC Civil
The Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE) is an internationally recognized program leading the expansion of knowledge on developing sustainable cities and villages. CEIE offers MS and PhD programs educating students in the theory and practice of civil engineering science and design.
CEC Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science offers four MS programs in Computer Science, Information Security Assurance, and Software Engineering. These prepare students for all types of careers in the fast-growing and high-paying software industry. The Department also offers a PhD in Computer Science to prepare students for research careers, academic careers, and executive leadership positions in software companies and government agencies.
Data Analytics
The mission of the CEC multidisciplinary Data Analytics Engineering (DAEN) program is to provide knowledge and experience across a broad range of data analytics algorithms, tools, processes, and focus on a flexible and broad set of courses to be used by graduates for solving a wide range of real-world problems.
Digital Forensics
Digital forensics is a discipline addressing the collection, processing, and analysis of digital data for the purpose of verifying/validating the existence of an event of investigation, intelligence, cyber, or business interest. Telecommunications offers a blend of cutting-edge practice-oriented courses in networking engineering, cloud computing, wireless communications, and cyber security.
CEC Electrical
Computer engineering involves knowledge of hardware development for embedded and general-purpose systems, including those found in smartphones, cards, appliances, smart factories, satellites, and the Internet of Things. Electrical engineering covers a variety of topics including wireless communications, computer networks, signal processing, machine learning, control systems, robotics, bioengineering, space-based systems, nanoelectronics, and smart grid.
CEC IST
The mission of IST is to be a leader in producing high quality graduates by providing outstanding education in the emerging areas of information science and technology, leveraging innovative instructional methods, and with an emphasis on enhanced student experience. Its research areas focus on cyber security, machine learning, natural language processing, big data and data analytics, cyber human systems, and IT management.
CEC IT
The Information Technology (INFT) PhD is a signature degree of CEC. It focuses on science, engineering, and technology of information processing, an area of study ripe for innovation in a world driven more and more by data. The program accommodates a rigorous and cross-disciplinary PhD study and includes several concentrations to provide program focus.
CEC Mechanical
The PhD in Information Technology with a concentration in mechanical engineering features courses of study and research in the fluid/thermal sciences, solid mechanics, materials, environmental processes, and nanotechnology.
CEC DOIL
DOIL is committed to building an inclusive environment, where students, faculty and staff feel safe and supported. We work to foster a sense of belonging for all individuals within CEC and we facilitate student, faculty, and staff's access to educational and professional-development opportunities that empower them to develop and leverage their own agency.
CEC Biostatistics
The graduate programs of the Statistics Department include PhD in Statistical Science, MS in Statistical Science, MS in Biostatistics, and Applied Statistics Graduate Certificate, to train next-general statisticians and data scientists (SDS).
Systems Engineering
SEOR offers a master's degree in systems engineering, a master's in operations research, and a PhD in systems engineering and operations research. SEOR offers a concentration in predictive analytics and a concentration in financial engineering within the school-wide master's degree in data analytics engineering, as well as a dual master's degree in operations research and master's degree in statistical science jointly with the Statistics Department.
COS Academic Affairs
The College of Science at George Mason University blends traditional science education with sought-after programs in molecular medicine, climate dynamics, planetary science, forensic science, environmental studies, and geoinformation science to prepare students for exciting careers at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary scientific domains.
COS Computational
Computational & Data Science graduate programs within the College of Science are dedicated towards the application of data science in interdisciplinary fields, using accurate data models to explain and predict observable phenomena in all walks of society.
CVPA Grad Programs
The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is dedicated to advancing the study, creation, performance, and exhibition of the arts, acting on a strong belief in their transformative influence on individual and societies.
CVPA BAM
The College of Visual and Performing Arts offers several options for our undergraduate students to start working on their Master's degree while completing their Bachelor's degree. Completing one of these degree paths opens doors throughout the world of the visual and performing arts, where graduates can pursue careers as performing artists, entrepreneurs, gallery directors, curators, managing directors, professors, artistic directors, teachers, and more!
CHSS Crim
The department is internationally renowned for its applied research in policing, courts, and corrections, with particular emphases in organizational change, community partnerships, crime and place, rehabilitation and recidivism, and social justice. The department's multidisciplinary faculty has a wide-range of expertise—including in law, sociology, psychology, political science, and criminology—which gives students a rich variety of perspectives.
COS Environmental Science
he Department of Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) at George Mason University believes that addressing existing and emerging environmental challenges requires diverse knowledge and expertise in natural science, social science, and public policy. Our faculty and programs reflect the need for a transdisciplinary approach to environmental science, conservation, and sustainability.
CHHS Global Health
The Department of Global and Community Health offers accredited undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level degree programs in public health. We prepare students to make a difference in the health of communities.
COS Math
The department of Mathematical Sciences offers graduate PhD and MS degrees in both pure and applied mathematics.
CHHS Nutrition
The master of science in nutrition program emphasizes a skillset tailored to expanding nutrition-related needs. Students learn to assess, evaluate, and intervene in the most current and relevant nutrition issues. The curriculum prepares graduates to work for agencies, businesses, and organizations that seek to improve nutrition at the local, national, and global level.
CHSS Psychology
The Department of Psychology strives to generate new psychological knowledge and promote the application of knowledge in ways that enhance human potential for all individuals. We do this through our own research and our deep commitment to the mentorship of the next generation of psychologists, in an inclusive environment where all are valued and can thrive.
CHSS Sociology
The Graduate Program in Sociology focuses on linking public sociology and applied research. Public and applied sociology calls for sociologists to bring the distinct skills of the discipline to bear on matters of great public concern within academic, policy, and applied research settings.
COS Geology
We offer a multidisciplinary degree in Earth Systems Science, which focuses on courses in both geology and geography. The geology program in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Scientists is active in cutting-edge research in all aspects of the Earth system.
COS George Squared
GeorgeSquared (Advanced Biomedical Sciences) is a partnership between George Mason and Georgetown Universities that offers a nine-month pre-health preparatory, graduate-level program designed to help qualify students for medical, dental, or other health professional schools.
Global Affairs
The Global Affairs graduate program and the Middle East and Islamic Studies graduate program both offer a rigorous curriculum of 30 multidisciplinary credits that provides graduate students with a global perspective and prepares them to enter today's fast-paced, interconnected world.
Health Informatics
Health informatics is a dynamically growing field combining advances in multiple disciplines spanning medicine, health care and policy, computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence.
Health Services Research
This post-master’s multidisciplinary program focuses on analytical and data-driven methods for the examination of social, political, economic, and technological forces that affect the organization, financing, delivery, and regulation of health care services and public health systems. Students in the program acquire the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to creatively examine complex public health challenges and health system problems.
English
With concentrations in Literature, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Professional Writing and Rhetoric, and the Teaching of Writing and Literature, the Mason English department offers master's degrees aimed to meet a wide range of intellectual and professional needs and interests.
MAIS
Interdisciplinary Studies offers a home for students with broad academic interests who seek a master's degree that will help them to create a better world. Our programs are multidisciplinary in nature, allowing students considerable freedom to tailor their degrees to their unique interests and professional goals, with many encouraging experiential learning opportunities in a professional setting of the student's own choosing.
Social Work
Mason’s Master of Social Work (MSW) program is committed to student centered learning to prepare professional social workers with the skills and knowledge to advance human rights and to promote well-being by ensuring economic, environmental, and social justice for all persons and communities. Students can apply to a fully online or an on-campus program
Creative Writing
Learn how to earn a terminal arts degree and a professional certification in a community that combines a top-ranked MFA program and a dynamic literary arts center.
Languages
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages offers interdisciplinary graduate programs in Spanish and French that allow you to deepen your cultural and linguistic expertise through courses on topics such as border studies, cultural studies, film, gender studies, heritage language education, history, language pedagogy, literature, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.
Schar BAM
The Schar School of Policy and Government (SCHAR)offers current Mason undergraduate students the ability to complete an accelerated master's through the BAM program. There are 6 program options at the Schar School that allow for BAM entry.
Schar Grad Programs
The Schar School of Policy and Government offers 7 master's degree programs, 11 certificate programs, and 3 PhD programs. Most programs are taught at the Mason Square (Arlington) Campus. Programs offered include: Biodefense (master's and PhD), Global Commerce and Policy, International Security, Public Administration, Public Policy (master's and PhD), Political Science (master's and PhD), and Organizational Development & Knowledge Management.
BUS Masters
The School of Business develops career-ready business graduates through rigorous, stimulating business programs based on a global perspective, industry demand, and leadership. Come learn about our specialized degrees including MS in Finance, MS in Accounting, MS in Business Analytics, and MS in Real Estate Development.
BUS BAM
The School of Business develops career-ready business graduates through rigorous, stimulating business programs based on a global perspective, industry demand, and leadership. Fast-track your master’s degree with our BAM programs in MS in Management, MS in Accounting, and MS in Finance.
BUS General
The School of Business develops career-ready business graduates through rigorous, stimulating business programs based on a global perspective, industry demand, and leadership. Come learn about our general business degrees including MS in Management and MBA.
Systems Biology
Systems Biology includes graduate programs in Biology, Biosciences, and Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. The Neuroscience, PhD program focuses on the study of the brain and addresses the challenge of developing an integrative understanding of cognition and higher brain function.