The SEAS Bulletin lists a number of concentrations within the MS EE program. The purpose in offering these lists is to help guide students who have a particular focus in mind for their MS degree, but are perhaps wondering which courses from outside the main core will be complementary. The concentration lists represent the distilled advice of the faculty on which courses 'go well together'.
Please note, however, that concentrations are not required, that is you are free to take any combination of courses subject to the basic MS degree requirements, regardless of whether they conform to any of the listed concentrations.
Also note that concentrations do not have any formal status. In particular, your diploma will not carry any annotation of concentrations consistent with the courses you took. The closest you could come to that would be to list on your CV that you have an MS EE from Columbia "with a concentration in ...". This is just a way of summarizing the spectrum of classes you took.
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