Publishing

Master digital and print publishing

Earn your master’s degree in NYC or ONLINE

Pace University’s Publishing master’s program will give you a thorough grounding in every aspect of print and digital publishing—editorial, finance, marketing, layout and design, budgeting, production, sales, and distribution. Focused on the present and future of the industry, the program also includes on-campus and online courses on digital media strategies, including web development, eBooks, apps, and social media. Pace’s renowned MS in Publishing program draws students and publishing professionals from all over the world: Italy, Brazil, France, Norway, India, and Colombia to name a few places. The multicultural makeup of our student body provides you with a stimulating environment to learn in, allowing you to develop friendships with people from all over the world.

Study in the heart of America’s publishing capital or online and network with the Big Five publishing houses and hundreds of other publishing and media companies in New York City. Intern and eventually work in the firms that are shaping the future of the publishing industry as you integrate new technologies and changing readership habits into how books are written, made, and distributed.

 

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$75,020
average annual wage for editors (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)
94%
of Dyson's master's-level graduates from the class of 2023 are employed or continuing their education. (Source: Pace University Career Services)
$77,542
average annual wage for Digital Content Producer (Source: GlassDoor.com)

The David J. Pecker Distinguished Professorship

The David J. Pecker Distinguished Professorship enables Pace University to recruit and invite chief executive officers of major publishing companies and other industry leaders to teach and lecture within the MS in Publishing program. Pace University alumnus Yahdon Israel, the host of the Literaryswag Book Club, the host of LIT, a weekly web series about books and culture, and the Awards VP of the National Book Critics Circle, presently holds this position.

The Professorship allows Pace's publishing students to learn from the most successful, innovative, and influential people in the publishing world; deepens the connection between students and the industry; exposes students to the latest insights, innovations, and trends in the business; enhances the program’s already-glowing reputation and allows it to compete both locally and nationally.

Featured companies 

Alumni work at companies like:

  • Amazon
  • American Broadcasting Co. (ABC)
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Condé Nast Inc.  
  • The Daily News
  • DC Comics
  • Doubleday  
  • Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
  • Editor & Publisher
  • ESPN, Inc.
  • Folio Literary Management
  • Forbes, Inc.
  • Garland Publishing
  • Google 
  • Greenwood Publishing Group
  • Grey Global
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • Hachette Book Group
  • Hearst Inc.
  • Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency
  • Kaplan, Inc.  
  • Lee & Low Books 
  • Little, Brown and Company
  • Marvel Entertainment
  • McGraw-Hill
  • Macmillan Publishers
  • Oxford University Press
  • Penguin Random House
  • Rosetta Books
  • Random House
  • Rizzoli New York 
  • Sage Publications 
  • Scholastic
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Taylor & Francis
  • W. W. Norton & Company 
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I chose Pace because I wanted a small and interactive learning environment, and because of the incredible opportunities the university has to offer, which includes sequential degree programs, internships, and career connections.

– —Maria Snelling ’21
Pace University

About Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Dyson College at Pace University offers the resources and caliber of faculty that you would expect at a large university, while providing the close personal attention associated with a small college experience. Dyson currently has 1,155 enrolled graduate students in programs spanning the arts, humanities, and natural, social and health sciences. In small classes taught by caring faculty who are active practitioners in their fields, Dyson offers  innovative programs at convenient locations in New York City and Westchester.

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