MA in Individualized Studies

Design Your Degree.

Earn your MA in Individualized Studies in less than 24 months online.

Our MA in Individualized Studies helps you achieve your specific academic goals within the context of a Master of Arts program at an award-winning private university embracing individuality and diversity.

Create a unique program that redefines conventional education through a transdisciplinary approach. You’ll learn in a 100% online learning environment that encourages individualism and inclusion, and you can earn your Master of Arts in one of several specializations in as little as 24 months (or less).

This is an MA on your terms, tailored to your specific academic interests and personal objectives — it is a program you won’t find anywhere else because you created it.

This degree is offered by Antioch University Online

Individualized Master’s Degrees – 100% Online.

Education on your terms. Antioch’s MA in Individualized Studies (IMA) offers you space to personalize your curriculum, so that you graduate with the education you want and need.

• Design your degree. Combine existing grad courses or work with your advisor to design your own. Study a specific interest or multidisciplinary issue. Build your MA the way you want it.
• More room to grow. Big lessons. Little class sizes. Flourish in small-scale learning environments with limitless possibilities. This is not a classroom. This is a community.
• School for all seasons. Start your MA in spring, summer, or fall. Seven-week courses that accommodate your schedule, offered fully online.
• Self-directed learning in a supportive online community of faculty and other students
• 36 credits; transfer up to 15 credits!

Select a core concentration as a foundation for your degree.

Develop an individualized curriculum that meets the academic and professional standards for graduate education in your discipline or field of study. The individualized curriculum is developed in a collaborative partnership among you, your Faculty Advisor, your Concentration Mentor, and the instructors. Together we are responsible for certifying that the curriculum complies with graduate-level learning requirements and the professional criteria in the field of study.

MA in Individualized Studies, Humanities

Design a degree program to address a particular intellectual interest or study a multidisciplinary issue by combining existing courses from graduate areas of the university after building an understanding of the Humanities through three foundation courses: Foundations of the Humanities, Humanities Research Methods, and Individualized Study in the Humanities.

Choose your focus: Creative Writing, Cultural and Religious Studies, or Art and Letters.

MA in Individualized Studies, Social Sciences

Combining existing courses from graduate areas of the university after building an understanding of the Social Sciences through three foundation courses: Foundations of the Social Sciences, Social Research Methods, and Individualized Study in the Social Sciences.

Choose your focus: Educational Studies and Human Development, Conflict Resolution, or Management of Human and Natural Systems.

MA in Individualized Studies, Transformative Learning Communities

Centered on the understanding that we have the capacity to author our own lives from a place of resourcefulness, creativity, and possibility – the Transformative Learning Communities concentration within Social Sciences offers the opportunity for learning in community, acknowledging a tension between two learning paradigms: self-authored and nested in an intentional transformative learning community. You can experience inquiry-based learning within the power of conversation and connection with your mentors and community.