Graduate degrees
Advance with purpose. Lead with expertise.
Whether you’re deepening your knowledge or shifting your career path, NAU’s graduate programs are built to meet your goals. Explore degrees by area of interest and find the next step that moves you, and your impact, forward.
Business and Hospitality
Lead organizations, manage operations, and create memorable customer and guest experiences while building skills in business strategy, finance, marketing, hospitality and tourism management, leadership, and service-focused decision-making.
Humanities and Languages
Examine culture, history, language, and ideas to better understand the human experience while developing professional skills in critical thinking, analysis, and interpreting meaning across time and cultures.
Education and Teaching
Make an impact through education, counseling, and leadership by developing skills in learning, development, curriculum, and behavioral support across a range of educational and community settings.
Life and Physical Sciences
Study the natural world-from microscopic life to matter, energy, and cosmic systems-while exploring scientific principles and conducting research to better understand connections between natural sciences and human societies, Earth, and the universe.
Environment, Sustainability, and Forestry
Focus on the environment and human interaction with it by developing skills to apply science and technology to understand and manage ecosystems and natural resources, address land-use issues, and support environmental and resource management.
- MS in Biology
- MS in Biology with Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology emphasis
- MS in Biology with Biology Coursework emphasis
- MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Community Engagement and Advocacy
Focus on creating change through community engagement and advocacy while examining social systems and developing skills to support individuals and strengthen communities.
- MA in Anthropology
- MA in Applied Sociology
- MA in Human and Community Relations
- M in Organizational Leadership with Project Management emphasis
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Nursing and Health Professions
Prepare for a career in healthcare by developing the knowledge and hands-on skills to support patient care, clinical practice, and community health and improve outcomes for individuals and communities.
Computing, Mathematics, and Data Science
Use computing, mathematics, and data to solve real-world problems and inform decisions while building technical skills in software development, cybersecurity, data science, informatics, geographic information systems (GIS), and scientific analysis.
- MS in Business Analytics
- MS in Computational and Applied Data Science
- MS in Computer Science
- MS in Cybersecurity
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Public Service, Justice, and Law
Examine systems of government, law, and public policy to understand how societies function while developing the ability to work within these systems, serve communities, and support informed decision-making.
- MS in Applied Criminology
- MED in Counseling - School Counseling
- MS in Cybersecurity
- MED in Educational Leadership - Community College/Higher Education
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Communications and Media
Build skills in communication strategy, media creation, and audience engagement as you examine how messages are developed, delivered, and adapted across digital, visual, and interactive platforms.
Performing and Fine Arts
Express your creativity through visual art, music, theatre, and design while developing your artistic voice and bringing ideas to life through creative practice.
Engineering
Turn ideas into solutions by applying engineering skills and expertise to design, build, create, test, and improve technologies-from civil infrastructure and machines to digital and environmental systems-that shape everyday life.
Social Work, Behavioral and Mental Health
Prepare to support behavioral and mental health needs with individuals and within systems by developing skills in assessment, intervention, and evidence-based practice in clinical, educational, healthcare, and community settings.
- MED in Applied Behavior Analysis
- MS in Applied Criminology
- MA in Applied Sociology
- MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
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Nutrition, Fitness, and Wellbeing
Focus on health, fitness, and wellbeing through nutrition, movement, and recreation while building skills to promote healthy lifestyles, support communities, and enhance quality of life.
- MS in Athletic Training
- MPH in Public Health - Health Promotion with Indigenous Health emphasis
- MPH in Public Health - Health Promotion
- MPH in Public Health - Nutrition
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Construction and Planning
Shape the spaces where people live, work, and connect through construction, interior design, and urban planning while gaining the skills to manage projects and create functional, well-designed environments.
