Master of Arts in Art History

MA in Art History at UMass Amherst is the only graduate degree program in the field at a public university in New England.
Here at UMass Amherst, you'll be part of a program enrolling an average of 15-20 students, ensuring close collaboration between students and our nine full-time faculty members.

Our faculty’s active research is reflected in a range of great courses highlighting art history's diversity of methodological approaches, geographic areas, and thematic issues.

Through your work, you'll be well-prepared for doctoral study, and you'll get professional training for many careers — museum and historical society work, government programs in the arts, the art market, journalism, teaching at all levels, and so much more.

Our recent graduates have been accepted into doctoral programs at Princeton, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia, The Courtauld Institute of Art, John Hopkins, the Graduate Center at CUNY, and Boston University, among others. Graduates also have continued to full-time careers in the museum world and art market at places like the Clark Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Bonhams, and Skinner Auctioneers—the list goes on.

MA program must submit an application form, personal statement (one to two pages), two letters of recommendation, transcripts of academic work, and a sample of art historical writing with the applicant as sole author (no more than 20 pages of text plus relevant images and bibliography). A faculty committee evaluates the file, giving priority to the candidate\u2019s overall academic background in the humanities, foreign language competency, letters of recommendation, and motivation and interest. Applicants who wish to be considered for the Graduate Diversity Fellowship should indicate this in their Personal Statement. IELTS - 6.5, TOEFL IBT- 80