Graduate Schools at Fordham

Fordham University maintains six graduate schools, offering numerous individual master's and doctoral degree programs and broadly humanistic training for the professions of law, finance and industry, government and public service, ecclesiastical leadership and pastoral care, education, psychology, social work, and academic scholarship. Fordham's 7,000 graduate students attend one of six schools: the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Business, the Graduate School of Social Service, the School of Law, the Graduate School of Education and the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education.

The Schools of Law, Business, Social Service and Education are located on the Lincoln Center campus, in close proximity to Manhattan's midtown business, media and performing arts districts, and serviced by Columbus Circle's bus and subway hub. Additional degree and extension programs in education, social service and business administration are offered at Fordham's Westchester campus in Tarrytown, New York. At the Rose Hill campus in the Northern Bronx, the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Religion and Religious Education hold the majority of their graduate classes on an 85-acre historic campus.

The University's orientation towards a values-based and academically rigorous education helps students formulate their own questions and take action. A Fordham graduate education, while academically challenging, is never merely academic; it entails a commitment to shaping the whole person, intellectually and spiritually, symbolized by the Latin phrase cura personalis.

As a doctoral and research university, the level of scholarship and professional accomplishment of Fordham's faculty is notable. Fordham's advanced students also draw a wealth of experience and knowledge from the presence of instructor-practitioners as partners in the learning process: men and women whose distinguished careers have prompted the University to harness that experience in the classroom. With a student-faculty ratio of 11:1, the education available to Fordham's graduate students at the master's and doctoral level is individualized and nurturing, catalyzing not just reflection but action.

Graduate life at Fordham keeps pace with the dynamic cultural life of New York City itself, a city of international importance in the financial, legal, artistic, cultural, and ecclesiastical spheres. The University's urban location not only provides an opportunity for students to explore the multicultural arts and entertainment offerings of Manhattan: it also offers an intensive immersion in the educational and social challenges of New York City's changing populations, invaluable training for future professional in social service, education, law, business, church leadership and other fields.

Many graduate students at Fordham already work in these fields while completing their advanced degree requirements, thus the University accommodates their needs through part time options and a great deal of scheduling flexibility in its graduate degree programs.

Enriched by the Jesuit traditions of intellectual inquiry and ethical engagement with the contemporary world, Fordham University's graduate schools prepare students for meaningful careers and morally aware citizenship.