New York University

New York University is a private research university founded in 1831. Its founders included Albert Gallatin, who served as Treasury Secretary under Thomas Jefferson. The main campus has no gates and surrounds Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. NYU also has a Brooklyn campus for engineering and degree-granting campuses in Abu Dhabi, opened in 2010, and Shanghai, opened in 2013. Its academic centers on several continents make it one of the most globally distributed US universities.

NYU has about 20 schools and colleges, including the Graduate School of Arts and Science, the Stern School of Business, the School of Law and the Tisch School of the Arts. Others are the Steinhardt School, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Silver School of Social Work, the School of Global Public Health and the Tandon School of Engineering, which joined in 2014. The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Institute of Fine Arts and NYU Langone Health, with the Grossman School of Medicine, are major graduate centers.

NYU enrolls about 60,000 students, and roughly half are in graduate and professional programs. It has one of the largest international student populations of any US university, drawn from more than 130 countries. More than 30 Nobel laureates have studied or taught there. Its alumni include the filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee and the economist Alan Greenspan.

Graduate study includes PhDs in the Graduate School of Arts and Science and Courant, the JD and LLM, the MBA, MFA degrees in film and the performing arts, and a large number of professional master's degrees. Doctoral students are usually supported by multiyear fellowship packages, while funding for master's students varies by school. The year runs on semesters. Graduate students live and study across Manhattan and Brooklyn.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, New York University lists 427 graduate programs across 59 subjects: 250 master's programs and 132 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, biology and health & medical sciences. New York University holds rank 24 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.