Help shape the future of philosophy of education through graduate research at Teachers College, Columbia University. Our program attracts students from all over the nation and the world who want to be part of a collaborative and scholarly community. As a graduate student in this program, the only one of its kind in New York City, you'll have the opportunity to advance humanistic and critical thinking about education. Through a highly successful cohort model, our students engage substantive themes in aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, and more, while linking these themes to fundamental educational questions. Through this extraordinary program, you’ll be on the path to becoming a more grounded thinker and a more influential educator no matter where you work or may end up working. Whether you’re looking to become a college professor or to achieve other career aspirations, no other graduate program in North America matches us for placing graduates., Our graduate programs in Philosophy & Education broaden and deepen students' understanding of aesthetics, ethics and moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, and epistemology and the philosophy of science as they apply to issues in education. Learn more and apply., The Master of Arts degree program is designed to introduce educators and professionals with a wide variety of interests to the study of philosophy and education. In addition to the required 12 points in Philosophy and Education courses, students may use their electives to develop an area of educational interest (e.g., educational policy .