Launch or Accelerate Your Publishing Career

Our MS in Publishing prepares you for a wide range of roles in book and magazine publishing and digital media. Graduates of our program are working as book and magazine editors, creators of branded content, marketers and publicists, sales directors, literary agents, and new business developers, among many other roles in these exciting and ever-changing fields.

With an MS in Publishing, you can be confident that you will have the skills necessary to launch your career in the areas of publishing that you find intriguing.

This degree provides students with an in-depth understanding of how publishing works that ensures they can flourish from the moment they begin working in the field. The hands-on learning, valuable industry connections, and practical, real-world skill sets that our students acquire are invaluable assets for anyone who wants to make their dreams of a publishing career a reality.

An MS in Publishing opens up a world of specialized knowledge and gives students a set of specific skills that make a career in any area of publishing.

As little as 16 months! Students who wish to can take up to four years to complete their degree.

Yes, in addition to federally-funded scholarships (which require a FAFSA application), the program offers a number of departmental scholarships, as well as a few named scholarships and fellowships based on academic merit. You may also refer to the Financial Aid scholarships website, which lists both school-wide and departmental scholarship offerings.

The MS in Publishing incorporates analysis of the effects of generative AI on the publishing industry into both core and elective courses covering book publishing and magazines/digital media. We examine AI from a number of different angles, including: examining questions of copyright and “training” of AI products in Publishing and the Law; the application of AI tools with regard to copywriting, discovery, and marketing in Introduction to Marketing and Branding, Book Marketing and Branding, and Media Marketing and Branding; and the use of AI design-based products in Design Skills in Publishing. Issues and opportunities around the role of AI in writing and editing are discussed in Editing Creative Content, Book Acquisition and Editing, and Creative Writing. The constantly changing application of this technology to the publishing industry is necessarily embedded throughout our program’s offerings.

Graduates of our programs can be found throughout the publishing industry, including at 

• ABRAMS

• Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc.

• Condé Nast

• Fortune Media Group

• Hachette Book Group

• HarperCollins Publishers

• Hearst

• Macmillan Publishers

• Penguin Random House

• Simon & Schuster, Inc.

• W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

No! While it’s true that New York City has long been a major hub of publishing, there are opportunities throughout the US, Canada, and the world. There are book publishing companies in San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, and many other cities and towns; there are magazines and digital media companies in places large and small throughout North America and beyond. Having an MS in Publishing means that you’ll be appealing in markets within NYC and everywhere that content is published.