Museum Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY

If you plan to study museum studies, take a look at what The Graduate Center, CUNY has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

The Graduate Center is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 9,300. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 students received their master's degree in museum studies.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Museum Studies section at the bottom of this page.

The Graduate Center Museum Studies Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Museum Studies

Online Classes Are Available at The Graduate Center

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, The Graduate Center does offer online courses in museum studies for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

The Graduate Center Museum Studies Rankings

Museum Studies Student Demographics at The Graduate Center

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the museum studies majors at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

The Graduate Center Museum Studies Master’s Program

The museum studies program at The Graduate Center awarded 10 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 20% of these degrees went to men with the other 80% going to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 19% men graduate in museum studies each year. The Graduate Center does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 1% more men than average.

In the museum studies master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 25% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The Graduate Center, CUNY with a master's in museum studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Medieval Studies
• International Studies
• Cultural Studies & Analysis
• Computational Science

Careers That Museum Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in museum studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Curators	1,570	$73,850
Museum Technicians and Conservators	1,490	$56,040
Archivists	1,170	$56,270

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Alex Irklievski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.