For more than 25 years, Bard Graduate Center has been training the next generation of curators, researchers, and museum and arts professionals. Bard's M.A./Ph.D. program offers a broad exploration of history through its material traces, drawing on methodologies and approaches from art and design history, economic and cultural history, and anthropology and archaeology, and our students come from diverse academic backgrounds, including art history, anthropology, religious studies, history and classics.
The two-year M.A. program includes internship opportunities at cultural institutions all over the world as well as a funded international study trip. Graduates of BGC go on to a range of professional careers in the museum world and beyond, and many continue their research at highly competitive doctoral programs. More than 80% of our MA students receive financial support to help with the cost of their graduate education.
On October 26, from 5-7 p.m. in Peirce Hall, stop by to talk to Keith Condon, director of admissions, about graduate study at BGC.