Interdisciplinary graduate schools?

juillet
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:10:51 +0000

This isn’t really what graduate school is designed for.

Graduate school isn’t about pursuing interests or exploring areas like undergrad is. It’s preparation for a specific set of careers. Graduate school is expensive and the opportunity cost can be large depending on how much time you spend there. It’s not a time to hedge your bets and try to explore two completely disparate areas; you get a graduate degree because you need it to do something specific. That’s probably the reason you can’t find any degrees like that - because they don’t exist and, quite frankly, would be useless to the vast majority of people. Even at Gallatin, the point of an individualized graduate program would be to design something that doesn’t exist but that is useful to a future career.

You certainly don’t need a master’s degree to do photography, so if you want that as a career your best bet is to apprentice with a photographer and build a portfolio.

If you want international development, there are plenty of schools of international affairs that offer that degree. International education is a distinct field and could be found probably at schools of education or schools of international affairs depending on the university.