The Irish World Academy offers 11 taught postgraduate programmes:
- Graduate Diploma in Education (Music)
- A teacher education programme specially designed to meet the needs of graduates who wish to become teachers of music in secondary schools.
- MA Classical Strings Performance
- Advanced string tuition in violin, viola, cello and double bass as well as coaching in chamber music and chamber orchestra.
- MA Community Music
- A comprehensive grounding in the skills and knowledge needed to function as a successful community musician in a range of contexts.
- MA Dance Performance: Contemporary Dance
- Offer students an opportunity to undertake a period of intensive, primarily studio-based, research into contemporary dance, performance and choreography.
- MA Dance Performance: Irish Traditional Dance
- Advanced training in Irish traditional dance performance practices within a variety of historical, theoretical and dance performance contexts.
- MA Ethnochoreology
- An interdisciplinary subject which considers dance in its cultural context by applying theoretical concepts developed in the Social Sciences.
- MA Ethnomusicology
- A study programme to understand the processes by which music is imagined, made, listened to, and discussed among human beings—everywhere and anywhere.
- MA Irish Traditional Music Performance
- Advanced tuition in the performance of Irish Traditional Music through instrumental and vocal tuition provided by a community of world-renowned traditional performers and tutors.
- MA Education (Music)
- An extension of the Graduate Diploma in Education (Music), or equivalent programme, to Masters level thereby continuing the commitment to excellence in the practical and academic teaching of music at post-primary level.
- MA Music Therapy
- Offers a professional qualification in music therapy using the unique characteristics of music in musical interaction to support people who have additional needs because of medical, psychological, physical or emotional problems.
- MA Ritual Chant and Song
- Exploring the voice and its use in ritual contexts, this programme is an investigation of the voice through one-to-one vocal technique classes, somatic practices, as well as specific ritual vocal repertoires.