Graduate Study in Arts and Sciences at Fordham
Graduate education for the global good
Whether in the sciences, the arts, or the humanities, graduate education at Fordham shares a distinctive signature: a belief in the transformative power of inquiry for its own sake, an impatience with conventional academic boundaries and frameworks, and an insistence that change must move humanity forward.
Our faculty are leaders in research who regularly make significant scholarly contributions and advancements in their professional fields.
Arts and Sciences programs
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers more than 40 doctoral and master’s degrees across STEM, humanities, and the social sciences, as well as advanced certificates.
Doctoral programs
In a Fordham PhD program, you’ll work with a community of scholars to produce research that matters—and rise to the top of your field, whether in academia or beyond.
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Master’s programs
In Fordham’s master’s programs, you’ll make vital connections and gain the skills and knowledge to help you shape a more just, inclusive, and hope-filled future.
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Advanced certificates
Our advanced certificate programs will help you enhance your skills and strengthen your place as a socially responsible leader in an increasingly networked world.
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Beyond the classroom
Fordham graduate students have the opportunity to foster the development of skills that cannot be learned in the laboratory or library alone, skills that find their being in human relationships, including:
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- GSAS Futures is a holistic professional development initiative that promotes career pathway preparation.
- Our Preparing Future Faculty Intensive program (PFFI) enhances the already extensive training and experience students receive at Fordham to become thriving faculty members.
Inspired by cura personalis—“care for the whole person”—Fordham GSAS uses the holistic eight dimensions of wellness for graduate student well-being.
Our master’s and doctoral degree alumni...
- Join all sectors of the economy nationally and internationally
- Hold positions at more than 1000 employers.
- 65% work in industry (50% for profit; 15% nonprofit), 27% in academia, and 8% in government
- While a majority (93%) are employed in the United States, 9% are employed internationally across 35 countries.
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Top Employers of Graduate Arts and Sciences Alumni
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Amazon American Express Boston Children's Hospital Catholic Charities of the Archdioceses of New York Catholic Relief Services CBS News Central Bank of the Democratic Republic CITI City of New York Columbia University Con Edison Dell Technologies Deloitte Ernst & Young Fordham University Harvard University Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai JP Morgan Chase KMPG Memorial Sloan Kettering Morgan Stanley NBC Universal New York City Council New York Hospital for Special Surgery New York State Department of Health New York State Office of Information Technology Services New York University NYU Langone Hospitals Manhattan Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy Mount Sinai Health System Northwell Health Paramount PayPal Penguin Random House Penn State University Rockefeller University Stanford University United Nations University of Pennsylvania U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of State Walt Disney Company Wildlife Conservation Society Yale University
