Unlock the world of visual culture with the NUS Master of Arts (MA) in Japanese Visual Cultures, where academic rigour meets industry insights. This one-year programme immerses you in Japan's pioneering visual culture production, providing the critical skills and knowledge needed to navigate and influence today's digitized visual landscape.

NTU's School of Humanities (SoH) is home to six major programmes: Art History, Chinese, English, Linguistics & Multilingual Studies, History and Philosophy. The School offers Graduate Research Degrees in all of these disciplines.

MA Design is a research-led practice programme that challenges current conventions of thinking, making, and communicating.

The Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) are advanced academic graduate programmes that provide the sound theoretical foundation and practical skills needed for a career in language teaching or other related work in educational contexts in Singapore or overseas.

The MA in Media and Communication Industries provides a dynamic and comprehensive curriculum that facilitates pathways into professions in the creative industries in operations, management, research, policy, other support services, and postgraduate research. The curriculum will assist you in gaining both practical and theoretical skills through production, creative work/study experiences, and research and study.

Education is constantly under pressure to conform to external requirements, especially with standardisation and teaching to the test sweeping the globe, steering policies and pressurising educational leaders. This programme will build your intellectual and practical confidence in all interactions; with teachers, parents, students, managers, board members and policymakers, to engage at a higher level and influence change.

Elevate your career in the performing arts with the NUS one-year Master of Arts (Theatre and Performance Studies). This programme blends academic rigor with industry insights, offering hands-on learning in traditional and contemporary theatre and performance. Gain critical thinking, research, and digital skills from globally recognized experts, preparing you for roles in arts education, cultural leadership, and beyond.

Sociologists examine the taken-for-granted “facts” of society, often exposing unsavoury and under-investigated parts of contemporary social life. NTU Sociology provides research training through full-time and part-time M.A. and PhD by research, designed to give you the academic training needed to pursue your interests and produce rigorous social science. 

Psychology offers full-time and part-time M.A. and Ph.D. by research. Students in the programme will be situated in an opportune position to explore and choose from a wide array of research areas that the school endeavors in.

The MA Music Therapy programme is delivered within a robust framework of musical aesthetic excellence, well-evidenced theories, and rigorous clinical practice training that is informed by professional ethics, guidelines, and best practices. It is the only such programme in Singapore.

The programme develops the writers, editors, publishers, cultural curators, and writing teachers of tomorrow who create narratives that migrate from Singapore to the world's exponentially growing literary production and publishing market.

Our Part-Time, Online MA Digital Management program has been designed to enable you to face the challenges of our uncertain modern world, but with a schedule, that enhances a transformative journey. Together with classmates from all over the world, you will become a new kind of leader; one that’s adaptive, collaborative, and creatively driven. Go beyond other conventional master’s programs and thinking practices on how to create effective teams and business values.

The Master of Arts Early Childhood Leadership and Practice programme provides a critical, comprehensive and interdisciplinary preparation for multi-professional work in the early childhood sector. This programme aims to develop your knowledge of early childhood practice in a range of contexts and your research skills. Assignments provide opportunities for you to apply advanced knowledge and research skills in practice in the context of employed or voluntary work.

This is a unique modular and flexible programme designed to reflect the needs of individuals or organizational cohorts. While each module has its own particular focus, all are concerned with investigating contemporary educational issues in the light of economic and social contexts, appropriate literature, and the shared experience of course members.

Our MA Creative Marketing & Advertising course offers those with wider business knowledge the opportunity to focus on marketing, communication, PR and advertising within the fast-growing creative industries.