Creativity, versatility, and rigor characterize the academic program at the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study provides a distinctive liberal arts education for a dynamic student body. Our curriculum offers flexible degree requirements and an array of seminar-style, interdisciplinary courses to help students fulfill them. As a Gallatin student, you have the freedom to combine the innovative course offerings at Gallatin with the hundreds of classes being taught across NYU each semester by some of the country’s leading scholars, researchers, and professionals.
Your time at Gallatin is centered around your individualized program of study.
Your individualized program of study — known as your concentration — is based on your own personal academic and professional goals. It is organized around a theme, problem, activity, period of history, area of the world, or central idea. You have a great deal of freedom in constructing your concentration, which will likely combine disciplines, classes, and other learning experiences.
While at Gallatin, you will develop your concentration through courses both at Gallatin and at NYU’s different schools and departments, combining academic rigor, intellectual curiosity, and individual creativity to thread your various interests. For undergraduate students, your Gallatin education will culminate in a Senior Colloquium, the capstone event of your BA degree. Graduate students will complete a final Master’s Thesis, which represents a synthesis of your knowledge and skill, and an opportunity to display the ideas and practices learned through your work towards a Master of Arts degree.
Advising is a cornerstone of the Gallatin experience.
A key to Gallatin’s individualized approach is our faculty advisers. As you develop your concentration, you will benefit from the support and guidance of a primary faculty adviser, who will help you learn to examine your interests from new angles. Undergraduate students are further supported by their class advisers and Gallatin’s Office of Advising, while graduate students work with the Administrative Director and Faculty Co-Directors of the graduate program.
Your creative, professional, and personal interests are integrated into your academic pursuits.
- Gallatin’s robust arts program allows students to combine work in the arts and performance with a liberal arts undergraduate experience.
- Through internships and other experiential learning programs, students gain real-world, hands-on experience that complements their academic studies.
- Global study and study away programs help students further expand their perspective and understand their areas of interest from new and different angles.
- Students can pursue individualized projects to develop practical knowledge in their areas of interest and to link these interests to the wider world.
- Students also have access to research funding and fellowship opportunities that empower them to explore their intellectual, creative, and career paths in new ways.
Getting involved with events and activities further enriches your experience.
Gallatin also hosts more than 200 events for students every year, and offers an array of social and extracurricular programming, where you will be able to participate in activities and support organizations that expand your academic, social, political, and cultural interests.
