Indiana University has an Arts Administration Masters program.  It is
highly competitive, and admits at most 10-15 students each year.  It is
primarily a business degree.  Museum studies is more general in that it
prepares students for collections-based work, such as curatorial,
exhibit, and collection/objects management.  Museum studies does not
prepare students to administrate things like municipal performance
groups, etc., as does arts admin.

Pat Roath
Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection
Indiana University, Bloomington
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Takeitdown wrote:

> does anyone out there know anything about or have any opinions on the
> Master of Arts Administration degree...  the one i'm interested in is at
> Univ. of New Orleans... do you know of any other places this degree is
> offered.. and how reputable/valuable is it compared to museum studies.
>