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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.