Below are lists of graduate programs in playwriting and dramaturgy throughout the United States. This is not a comprehensive list. Please contact info@pwcenter.org if you find information that needs to be updated.

Playwriting programs

• Arizona State University offers an MFA in Theatre with a Concentration in Dramatic Writing.
• Augsburg University offers a low-residency MFA in Creative Writing with a Playwriting & Screenwriting Track.
• Boston University offers an MFA in Playwriting through the College of Arts & Sciences in association with the College of Fine Arts School of Theatre.
• Brooklyn College offers a Playwriting MFA in their English Department.
• Brown University offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• California Institute of the Arts offers a Writing for Performance MFA.
• California State University – Los Angeles offers an MFA in Television, Film, and Theatre with an Option of Dramatic writing.
• Carnegie Mellon University offers an MFA in Dramatic Writing.
• Catholic University of America offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• Columbia University offers an MFA in Theatre Arts with a Playwriting Concentration.
• Florida State University offers an MFA in screenwriting.
• Fordham University offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• Goddard College offers an low-residency MFA in Creative Writing in which you can study all forms of Dramatic Writing inlcuding Television Writing, Screenwriting, and Playwriting.
• Hollins University offers a summer intensive MFA in playwriting.
• Hunter College, CUNY offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• Indiana University– Bloomington offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• Julliard offers a graduate-level fellowship in Playwriting.
• Lesley University offers a low-residency MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen.
• Loyola Marymount University in LA offers an MFA in Creating, Writing, & Producing for TV as well as an MFA in Feature Film Screenwriting.
• Louisiana State University offers an MFA in Creative Writing, with concentrations in Playwriting and Screenwriting.
• New England College offers a low-residency MFA in Creative Writing with a degree track for Writing for Stage and Screen
• New School offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• Northwestern offers an MFA in Writing for the Stage and Screen.
• Ohio University offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• Pace University offers an MFA in Playwriting through the Actors Studio Drama School.
• Pepperdine University offers an MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage.
• Queens College, CUNY offers an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation offering a degree in Playwriting.
• Regent University offers an MFA in Script and Screenwriting for Cinema-Television.
• Rutgers offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• San Francisco State University offers an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing, and both programs offer a focus in Playwriting.
• Savannah College of Art and Design offers an MA in Playwriting and Screenwriting.
• School of the Arts Institute of Chicago offers an MFA in Writing (which includes Playwriting and Screenwriting).
• Smith College offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale offers an MFA in Playwriting and a PhD in Playwriting 
• Spalding University offers a low-residency MFA in Playwriting.
• Temple University offers an MFA in Theater/Playwriting.
• Texas State University – San Marcos offers an MFA in Dramatic Writing.
• Texas Tech University offers an MA in Playwriting and Screenwriting.
• Tisch School of the Arts, NYU offers three programs: a Noncredit Certificate in Dramatic Writing, an MFA in Dramatic Writing with concentration in Playwriting, Screenwriting, or Television, and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing.
• The Lir at Trinity College offers an MFA in Playwriting
• U of Hawaii offers an MFA in Theatre with a Concentration in Playwriting.
• UC Riverside offers a low residency MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts.
• University of Arkansas offers an MFA in Playwriting. 
• University of California – San Diego offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• University of California – Los Angeles offers an MFA in Playwriting and Certificates in Feature Film and Television Writing.
• University of Houston offers an MA in Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy.
• University of Idaho offers both a traditional residential MFA and a unique Distance-delivered MFA in Dramatic Writing and/or Dramaturgy, plus an accelerated MA-MFA conversion program.
• University of Iowa offers an MFA in Theatre with a specialty in Playwriting.
• University of Missouri – Kansas City offers an MA in Theatre with an Emphasis in Playwriting.
• University of Nebraska offers a low-residency MFA in Writing with a Playwriting track.
• University of New Mexico offers an MFA in Dramatic Writing.
• University of New Orleans offers an MFA in Creative Writing. A low-residency program is also available.
• University of Southern California offers an MFA in Dramatic Writing.
• University of Texas – Austin offers an MFA in Playwriting.
• University of Texas - Austin: Michner Center offers an MFA in Writing
• Villanova University offers an MA in Theatre Arts with concentrations in both Dramaturgy and Playwriting.
• Western Michigan University offers an MFA in Creative Writing.
• Wilkes University offers an MA in Creative Writing (Playwriting and Screenwriting tracks) and an MFA in Creative Writing.
• Yale offers an MFA and a Certificate in Playwriting.

Dramaturgy programs

• Bowling Green University offers a PhD in Theatre.
• Brooklyn College offers an MA in Theater History and Criticism.
• Columbia University offers an MFA in Dramaturgy and Theater Studies.
• Cornell University offers an MA and a PhD in Theatre Arts.
• City University of New York offers a PhD in Theatre.
• Florida State University offers an MA, MS, and Phd in Theatre Arts, Dramatic Criticism, Theatre History, Dramaturgy.
• Harvard University/ American Repertory Theatre offers an MFA in Dramaturgy.
• Hunter College offers an MA Concentration in Dramaturgy.
• Indiana University at Bloomington offers a PhD in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism.
• Louisiana State University offers a PhD in Theatre, which includes performance, directing, and dramaturgy.
• Ohio State University offers an MA and PhD Dramaturgy, Dramatic Literature, Dramatic Criticism, Theatre History.
• Ohio University offers an MA in Theatre History and Criticism.
• San Diego State University offers an MA in Theatre Arts with dramaturgical options.
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale offers a PhD in Dramaturgy.
• State University of New York at Stony Brook offers an MA in Theatre with studies in theatre history, dramatic literature, and history of theatre and performance.
• University of California at Davis offers a PhD in Performance Studies and the Department of Theatre & Dance focuses on history, theory and criticism of theatre and dance, and to performance as research doctoral study.
• University of Colorado at Boulder offers an MA and PhD in Theatre History and Criticism.
• University of Georgia offers a PhD in Theatre, which includes performance, directing, and dramaturgy
• University of Iowa offers an MFA in Theatre Arts with a focus in Dramaturgy.
• University of Kansas at Lawrence offers an MA and PhD in Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism.
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst offers an MFA in Dramaturgy.
• University of Minnesota offers an MA and PhD in Theatre Historiography.
• University of Texas at Austin offers an MA, MFA and PhD in Performance as Public Practice.
• University of Washington at Seattle offers a PhD in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism through Theatre and Performance Studies.
• Yale University offers an MFA and DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism.