Performing Arts Schools in New York

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy - New York

Talented students from across the country and around the world choose AMDA because of its challenging, performance-based curriculum. They come to train with a premier faculty comprising accomplished actors, directors, choreographers, dancers and designers who inspire and work with students on an individual basis. AMDA offers BFA and certificate programs. The courses are performance based. The app...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Dance (Certificate)
- Certificate in Acting (Certificate)

Queens College

Queens College is the place for you to engage the world of ideas, prepare for your career, and enjoy the many events and activities the campus has to offer. And with the recent opening of The Summit—the college's first residence hall—Queens College is now the place to call your home and enjoy all that comes with a residential college experience....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Drama, Theatre, and Dance (Bachelor)

Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence is a coeducational liberal arts college, offering undergraduate as well as graduate degrees. Located just north of New York City on a wooded campus, the College is nationally renowned for its rigorous academic and creative standards. These are fostered by small seminar classes and individual student-faculty tutorials made possible by a very low student-to-faculty ratio of 6-to-1. It...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Dance (Master)

Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University is an institution with a rich and distinguished record in the field of education. Decade after decade, since its founding in 1887, the College has anticipated concerns and acted with initiatives to advance educational reforms and issues. With its tradition of innovation and insights, the College is one of the leading schools of education in the country, if n...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Dance and Dance Education (Master)

Pratt Institute, School of Art and Design

The mission of Pratt Institute is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society. Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills, and technical expertise. With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to beco...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Dance and Movement Therapy (Master)

State University of New York College at Brockport

The College at Brockport is a true learning community in which students, faculty and staff all contribute to and celebrate the success of others. Every student is recognized as a dynamic, multi-dimensional individual rich with promise. Through the many ways there are to learn, contribute and excel here, we help to awaken the scholar, the athlete, the artist, and the entrepreneur within. Our studen...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Dance (Master)

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Some 175 years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city...a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all." Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the U...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Performing Arts Administration (Master)
- Master in Music - Performing Arts (Master)
- Master in Dance Education (Master)
- Doctor in Music - Performing Arts (Doctor)
- Doctor in Dance Education (Doctor)
- Certificate in Music - Performing Arts (Certificate)

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

Some 175 years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city...a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all." Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the U...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Dance (Master)
- Master in Acting (Master)

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Division of Graduate Studies

Brooklyn College is an innovative liberal arts institution with a history of academic excellence in both undergraduate and graduate studies. Since its founding in 1930, the College has offered men and women—many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants and often the first in their families to go to college—a high-quality, affordable education that allows them to build a richer life and a p...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Theater (Master)

Hunter College, City University of New York

Hunter College, located in the heart of bustling Manhattan, is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Founded in 1870, Hunter is also one of the oldest public colleges in the country. Currently, 21,000 students attend the College, pursuing both undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 170 different programs of study. With the myriad opportunities found in New ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Theater (Master)

Binghamton University, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

Binghamton University is one of four university centers within the State University of New York - and, as The Fiske Guide to Colleges points out "Binghamton has become the premier public university in the northeast because of its outstanding academic programs. . . and its commitment to undergraduates."...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Theater (Master)

Long Island University, School of Visual and Performing Arts

Long Island University was chartered by the New York State Education Department in 1926 in Brooklyn, NY, as a nonsectarian, coeducational, privately supported university established to provide “effective and moderately priced education” to people from “all walks of life.” From its beginning, admission to the University has been based solely on merit and promise. Large numbers of immigrants and chi...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Theater (Master)

City University of New York, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The City University of New York is the nation's largest urban public university. Founded in New York City in 1847 as the Free Academy, CUNY comprises 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional St...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Performing Arts (Master)

Pace University, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Pace has a growing national reputation for offering students opportunity, teaching and learning based on research, civic involvement, an international perspective, and measurable outcomes....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Actors Studio (Master)

New York Film Academy

Some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers and film stars have chosen to send their sons and daughters to the Film School & Acting School of the New York Film Academy, including Steven Spielberg, Susan Sarandon, and Kevin Kline to name a few. Yet, some of the best projects to come out of the Film School & Acting School at the New York Film Academy are from students with no connections to the film ind...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Acting for Film (Master)

The New School, The New School for Drama

The New School is a legendary, progressive university comprising eight schools bound by a common, unusual intent: to prepare and inspire its 9,400 undergraduate and graduate students to bring actual, positive change to the world. From its Greenwich Village campus, The New School launches economists and actors, fashion designers and urban planners, dancers and anthropologists, orchestra conductors,...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Theatre - Acting, Directing, Playwriting (Master)

Bard College, Graduate Programs

Founded in 1860, Bard is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences. The campus, a fusion of two historic riverfront estates, is located in the Hudson Valley. The College offers the bachelor of arts degree with concentrations in more than 40 academic programs in four divisions: Arts; Languages and Literature; Science, Mathematics, and Computing; and Social Studies. In additio...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Vocal Arts (Master)

The Gow School

Celebrating its 75th year, The Gow School in South Wales, New York is an internationally renowned boarding school for young men, grades 7-12 with dyslexia or similar language based learning difficulties. The school is located on 100 acres of woodlands approximately 30 miles southeast of Buffalo, New York. The campus has twenty buildings, athletic fields, tennis courts, and a ski slope. The scho...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Fine and Performing Arts (Certificate)

New York University - Tisch School of the Arts

During the summer, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts offers rising juniors and seniors in high school the chance to experience intensive training in the performing and visual arts. Programs are available in New York City, Dublin, and Paris. Each program, exclusively designed for high school students, is worth 6 college credits and is an outgrowth of the professional training offered i...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Acting Workshop (Certificate)
- Certificate in Acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (Certificate)

State University of New York at Buffalo

A major public research university in the northeastern United States, the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo), or University at Buffalo (UB), offers an outstanding education at an affordable price. Founded in 1846, UB offers the broadest selection of undergraduate and graduate programs of any public university in New York and New England. UB has a total enrollment of 28,000, whi...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Dance (Bachelor)

Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus

With its academic excellence and caring faculty, C.W. Post offers more than 200 bachelor's and master's degree programs, including computer science, business, photography and art. Our classes are small and you will receive personal attention from professors who are master teachers and researchers and scientists and artists. C.W. Post also offers Conditional Admission for qualified international st...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Theater (Master)
- Bachelor in Theater Arts - Acting or Design & Production (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Dance Studies (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Acting (Bachelor)

State University of New York, Rockland Community College

The College is located on a scenic 175-acre campus, one of the 64 campuses in the State University of New York (SUNY), one of the largest university systems in the United States. It is fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges. Most students continue their studies at other campuses of the State University of New York as well as at other prestigious institutions thr...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Associate in Performing Arts (Associate)

Mohawk Valley Community College

Mohawk Valley Community College is a public co-educational, two-year institution. The college is a part of the 64-campus State University of New York System (SUNY). MVCC offers choice, opportunity and hope by providing accessible and affordable higher education, training, and services that emphasize academic excellence, diversity, and a global view for students. The college offers nearly 100 assoc...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Associate in Liberal Arts and Sciences - Theater (Associate)

Pace University

Located on the East Coast of the United States in New York State, the University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate program at three of its campuses in an around New York City: New York City Campus - is located at One Pace Plaza, opposite City Hall in Lower Manhattan. Situated in the heart of the civic and financial center of the city, this campus is impressive not only for its fac...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Actors Studio at Pace University (Master)
- Bachelor in Theater Arts (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Musical Theater (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Acting (Bachelor)

State University of New York at Oneonta

Founded in 1889 in "honor and good faith," the College is located in beautiful upstate New York. The College has 5,900 undergraduate students, 200 master's students, and 100 international students representing 15 countries. Located in a semi-rural area with spectacular views of the Catskill Mountains and fresh air, the campus and community are safe, friendly, and culturally diverse, offering year ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Theater (Bachelor)

New York University Spring in NY

NYU Spring in New York invites you to spend the spring semester (January 2010-May 2010) as a visiting student in one of the most exciting cities in the world. New York City offers you the best in museums, dance, film, libraries, concerts, plays, and galleries. Now is your chance to experience life in New York City while studying at New York University. At NYU, learning extends beyond the classroom...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Film and Performing Arts (Certificate)