Graduate Degrees

Master the art of communication and learn how to craft and share compelling messages that will cut through the noise to reach your target audience. Earn your MA in Communication at Johns Hopkins online or in D.C.

Sharpen your professional communication skills and bring them to bear as you tackle a mission-driven nonprofit organization’s need to motivate, mobilize, and influence its audience.

Develop critical intellectual and strategic leadership skills that will allow you to tackle the complex challenges of communication and business and uniquely position yourself for a leadership career with this dual degree program.

The challenges of the 21st century and an expanded drive to remain connected to our traditions and history have increased the need for forward-thinking strategies to safeguard cultures and preserve both built environments and natural heritage around the world.

Merge your interests in protecting today’s most precious places and intangible traditions while also leveraging technology to preserve and manage cultural heritage’s digital assets.

Students pursuing an MA in Cultural Heritage Management, who are interested in furthering their management education, may enroll in the dual degree program offered with the Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management of Advanced Academic Programs.

Gain real-world experience, explore emerging technologies, learn business and creative practices, and make industry connections that will put you on a path to telling stories that matter.

Global security in the 21st century is complex: rising powers, non-state actors, hybrid wars, cyber challenges, resource scarcity. With these challenges comes an opportunity to create smart, effective policies that helps shape and protect our world.

Students pursuing an MA in Global Security Studies may obtain an additional credential by completing courses that lead to the Certificate in Intelligence. This combined credential will prepare its graduates for careers in the U.S. Intelligence Community and in those parts of the government and private sector that use intelligence or work with the Intelligence Community. Students can complete this program with only 15 courses.

Bring about meaningful change and advance your career with a master’s in government. The flexible program equips you with practical skills for solving today’s governmental, political, and policymaking challenges.

The combined MA in Government/Certificate in Intelligence prepares its graduates for careers in the U.S. Intelligence Community and in those parts of the government and private sector that use intelligence or work with the Intelligence Community. Students can complete this program with only 15 courses. Most students take two courses per semester.

Advance your knowledge in government and politics, ethics, global economics, financial theory, and management, and set yourself apart from the competition in a career that overlaps public and private sectors.

Museums today need visionary leaders. This program offers the theory and practice of all aspects of the museum field, teaching innovative skills and knowledge to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Bring together your interests in the creation, preservation, and management of digital assets and the forward-thinking museums needed to share them with the curious.

Bring together your interests in developing the future of museums and honing your management and leadership skills to make it happen within that unique environment.

Nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations advance social progress, support health and human rights, aid in disaster recovery, and provide arts and education, among other critical services. Become the agent of change you aspire to be through mission-based work.

Advance your government or public service career with Hopkins’ innovative and flexible MA in Public Management program. Whether an online or on-campus student, what you learn in class will help you to address real-world governance and policy issues.

Students pursuing an MA in Public Management may obtain an additional credential by completing a sequence of courses offered by the Certificate in Data Analytics and Policy. This combined credential will prepare its graduates for careers in government agencies that require extensive use of data analysis in policymaking and public administration.

Students pursuing an MA in Public Management may obtain an additional credential by completing courses that lead to the Certificate in Intelligence. This combined credential will prepare its graduates for careers in the U.S. Intelligence Community and in those parts of the government and private sector that use intelligence or work with the Intelligence Community.

Enhance your understanding of how the government and non-profit sectors overlap and how they need to cooperate in order to succeed with their missions.

Do you enjoy explaining science? Do you delight in the wonders of nature or the process of scientific discovery, and yearn to tell those stories? Join the next generation of writers who are showing how science, medicine, and technology affect our lives.

Acquire new and innovative ways to teach writing to your students, study theories and best practices on the teaching of writing that can be shared with colleagues, and pursue your own writing in an exciting and supportive online community of teachers and writers.

You bring the passion for storytelling, we’ll help you develop your craft, tap into your creativity, and increase your network. Our goal is that you will leave our program ready to write, publish, and edit at the highest levels possible.

Biotechnology enterprises benefit from leaders who are skilled in the life sciences—and have strong business acumen. Aspiring biotech entrepreneurs need a solid understanding of intellectual property and law.

Deepen your understanding of the world around you, expand your knowledge, and boost your capacity for creativity. JHU’s nationally recognized Master of Liberal Arts degree lets you explore humanistic questions from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Healthcare. Finance. Foreign policy. Any sector related to national and global markets depends on the analytical skills of an economist. We can’t make informed, important decisions without their expertise.

To allow students to better exploit the strong complementarity between Finance and Economics, the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University and the Applied Economics Program have eliminated the overlap between the MS Degree in Applied Economics and the Graduate Certificate in Financial Management.

Learn to combine the knowledge of applied economics with insights into sound investment strategies—explore the strong complementary nature of economics and business with this dual degree program.

To allow students to better exploit the strong complementarity between Finance and Economics, the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University and the Applied Economics Program have eliminated the overlap between the MS Degree in Applied Economics and the graduate-level Investments Certificate.

Biology, meet big data. At the intersection of computer science and the life sciences is bioinformatics, an industry that fuels scientific discovery and is essential in all areas of biotechnology, including personalized medicine, drug and vaccine development, and database/software development for biomedical data.

Biotechnology is fueling advancements in healthcare and beyond. Prepare for the business or science side of this fast-growing field with the comprehensive MS in Biotechnology program at Johns Hopkins University.

Master your knowledge in biochemistry, biostatistics, and bioinformatics while developing critical business skills in accounting, finance, negotiation, regulatory, and legal matters with this dual degree.

This cutting-edge program empowers students to tackle meaningful policy challenges using analytics. Students graduate with the expertise to be data-driven decisionmakers and policy leaders in both the public and private sector.

Students pursuing an MS in Data Analytics and Policy may obtain an additional credential by completing courses that lead to the Certificate in Intelligence. This combined credential will prepare its graduates for careers in the U.S. Intelligence Community and in those parts of the government and private sector that use intelligence or work with the Intelligence Community, as well as other parts of the national security community. Students can complete this program with only 15 courses.

Increased demand for energy. Growing interest in efficient, renewable sources. Heightened awareness of climate change. You can help manage this delicate balance between the changing environment and an energy-dependent society.

When you combine scientific knowledge with passion for policy and progress, you can become a change agent in organizations dedicated to safeguarding our environment.

The use of Geographic Information Systems has become standard for many environmental professionals. At the same time, environmental work remains one of the most popular and powerful applications of GIS investigations. To enable students to better exploit the complementary nature of the fields, we have eliminated the overlap between the MS in Environmental Science and Policy and the Graduate Certificate in GIS. This enables students to earn both the MS degree and the Graduate Certificate by the completion of a total of 13 courses rather than the 15 courses that would be required to complete the programs separately.

Econometrics. Statistics. Forecasting. Many specialties go into financial economics. With Johns Hopkins University’s financial economics master’s degree program, you can gain the quantitative acumen to conduct empirical economic analyses and improve decision-making across the financial sector.

Access to safe, healthy food is one of our most basic needs. Consumers rely on skilled professionals to oversee our food supply from seed to shipment, from farm to table, and from oven to package.

GIS is a breakthrough technology that’s changed the way we organize, display, analyze, and share spatial information. This data helps scientists, public officials, private companies, and local communities make better decisions.

Geospatial intelligence helps you navigate the need to uncover answers despite the reality of missing, incomplete, or intentionally hidden data. Learn to understand a particular environment – anywhere on Earth – through analysis of data from satellites and sensors in order to shape important decisions in the government, private, and non-profit sectors.

Breakthroughs in genetics research are changing how we discover, diagnose, and treat disease. Individualized genomics is an emerging field filled with career opportunities in health care, education, biotech, and industry.

It’s no secret: Intelligence analysts provide insights that enable decision-making in a complex and uncertain world. Timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence is a key advantage in a competitive global environment where information is power.

Learn what it takes to lead a 21st century organization. Advance in your current organization, pursue a new opportunity, or change direction with Johns Hopkins’ innovative MS in Organizational Leadership degree program.

Innovation and discovery are in your DNA. Now, you can acquire the technical mastery to begin solving healthcare’s most significant challenges with the first regenerative and stem cell technologies master’s degree offered almost entirely online.

Behind every exciting research and development initiative in the medical and pharmaceutical industry, you’ll find skilled professionals dedicated to compliance, consumer safety, and public health.

Johns Hopkins was built upon inquiry, discovery, and sharing knowledge. America’s first research institution is the premier place to prepare for an exciting career in research administration and leadership.