Columbia University School of the Arts

The School is a flourishing, assorted group of skilled, visionary, and conferred specialists from around the globe and a workforce contained acclaimed and universally famous craftsmen, movie and theater chiefs, journalists of verse, fiction, and genuine, writers, makers, commentators, and researchers. In 2015, the School denoted the 50th Anniversary of its establishing. In 2017, the School opened the Lenfest Center for the Arts, a multi-expressions setting planned as a center point for the introduction and production of workmanship crosswise over controls on the University's new Manhattanville grounds. The Lenfest has displays, exhibitions, screenings, symposia, readings, and addresses that present new, worldwide voices and viewpoints, and additionally an energizing, freely open home for Columbia's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.

Columbia University School of the Arts awards the Master of Fine Arts degree in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Writing and the Master of Arts degree in Film and Media Studies; it also offers an interdisciplinary program in Sound Art.