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Graduate Programs

Naropa University offers twelve (or fourteen when foreign language requirements significantly alter Religious Studies and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism) master’s degree programs. Some are available as low-residency programs.

Master of Divinity
This three-year program results in a Master of Divinity degree, used most often in pastoral care, chaplaincy, dharma teaching, and community development careers.
Master of Arts in
  • Contemplative Education
This is a low-residency graduate program in education that includes contemplative components. Non-teachers are accepted into the program.
  • Psychology: Contemplative Psychotherapy
The only graduate program in the United States that joins psychotherapy training with Buddhist meditation. Meditation practice and Maitri retreats are an integral part of the program. It meets the requirements for the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) credential in the state of Colorado. With the LPC students are then eligible to sit for the Colorado State Board licensing examination after graduation.
  • Environmental Leadership
The department is influenced by living systems theory.
  • Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
A two year program of study in Buddhism. Students choose between the History of Religions or a Tibetan Tradition sequence. An Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with Language degree is also available and includes training in either Sanskrit or Tibetan.
  • Religious Studies
In addition to a masters degree in Religious Studies, Naropa offers a variant that includes training in either Sanskrit or Tibetan.
  • Transpersonal Counseling Psychology
Three concentrations are offered: counseling psychology, art therapy and wilderness therapy.
  • Transpersonal Psychology (low-residency)
Offers concentrations in transpersonal psychology and ecopsychology delivered primarily through online classes.
  • Somatic Counseling Psychology
This program offers two concentrations options—dance and movement therapy or body psychotherapy—and meets the academic requirements for the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) credential in the State of Colorado. With the LPC, students are then eligible to sit for the Colorado State Board licensing examination after graduation.
Master of Fine Arts in
  • Theater: Contemporary Performance
The MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance is offered on Naropa's campus in Boulder, Colorado and was the first graduate program to integrate contemporary physical theater, viewpoints theory and practice, and traditional contemplative practices.
  • Writing and Poetics
The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, founded in 1974 by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, offers courses taught by active, published writers. The Kerouac School has as its stated mission the education of students as knowledgeable practitioners of the literary arts.
  • Creative Writing (low-residency)
This program is a combination of online work and attendance at the Summer Writing Program.

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