Museology/Museum Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY
If you plan to study museology/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.
Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Museology/Museum Studies section at the bottom of this page.
The Graduate Center Museology/Museum Studies Degrees Available
- Master’s Degree in Museology/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.
Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? The Graduate Center offers distance education options for museology/museum studies at the following degree levels:
- Master’s Degree
The Graduate Center Museology/Museum Studies Rankings
Museology/Museum Studies Student Demographics at The Graduate Center
Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the museology/museum studies majors at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
The Graduate Center Museology/Museum Studies Master’s Program
Of the students who received a museology/museum studies master's degree from The Graduate Center, 69% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the museology/museum studies master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 31% of degree recipients. That is 9% 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 museology/museum studies.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
---|---|
Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 5 |
White | 22 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 2 |
Careers That Museology/Museum Studies Grads May Go Into
A degree in museology/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.