Graduate Education for the Global Good

Transformative Teaching, Research, and Service

GSAS Diploma Ceremony Masters Students

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.

Here, you will be part of an institution that believes knowledge becomes wisdom only when guided by moral principles, where:

  • Faculty are approachable and caring, as well as distinguished scholars who manage tens of millions of dollars in grant awards and publish approximately 500 monographs, books, book chapters, and articles each year.
  • You will have the opportunity to invest in others in ways that foster the development of skills that cannot be learned in the laboratory or library alone, including professional development workshops, professional conferences, and undergraduate teaching in your respective field of study.

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Over 40 graduate programs
100% tuition/fees covered for admitted Veterans and active military
15 accelerated programs for Fordham undergraduates
Over $9 million awarded in tuition and scholarships

Student Professional Development

GSAS - Advanced Certificate in Public Opinion and Survey Research

Our mission is to ensure that graduate students possess the skills and knowledge that will allow them to leverage their vocational training and academic experience in a professional setting.

GSAS Futures is a holistic professional development initiative that promotes career pathway preparation for our students across the arts and sciences. 

One of the benefits of undertaking a Ph.D. at Fordham is the extensive teaching training and experience in which you have the opportunity to participate during the course of your program through our Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program.

What's Your Three Minute Thesis?

Created to help students develop presentation and research communication skills and open to all students enrolled in a GSAS master’s or doctoral program, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication competition where contestants have three minutes to present compelling orations on their thesis or dissertation research, and its significance and value.

Congratulations to the winners! 

1st Place:
  • Alireza Zareian Jahromi, Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Developmental Psychology
    Preventative Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigating the Role of Self-Compassion and Narcissistic Traits
 Tied for 2nd Place: 
  • Douglass Hamilton (also the winner of the People's Choice Award), Ph.D. Candidate in History
    The Knight God Forgave: Longinus and the Negotiation of Knightly Piety c. 1000- c. 1300
  • Alice Grissom, M.A. Candidate in Medieval Studies
    Sensing Women in Anchoritic Texts
3rd Place:
  • Faaria Fasih-Ahmad, Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences
    A Simple Solution to a Global Disease- Altering Hemoglobin Levels

View the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition Spring 2023

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Master’s Program Fosters Heath Care Industry Connections

Master’s Program Fosters Heath Care Industry Connections

Jobs for medical and health service managers are projected to grow 28% from 2022 to 2032, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This year, all the students in the fifth cohort of Fordham’s master’s degree in health administration program received a valuable connection to that growing field: student membership in the American College …

Remembering Tony Bennett, Honorary Ram

Remembering Tony Bennett, Honorary Ram

When legendary singer and accomplished painter Tony Bennett died on July 21 at age 96, he left behind an artistic legacy unparalleled among peers. Even Frank Sinatra, whom Bennett called a close friend, famously said, “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.” After getting his start as a singing waiter …

Fordham’s Bronx African American History Project Attracts Scholars Worldwide

Fordham’s Bronx African American History Project Attracts Scholars Worldwide

Online visitors from more than 70 countries have accessed Fordham’s Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP), an extensive archive of essays and interviews with African Americans who have made the Bronx their home.  “We had downloads from Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the same day—two countries at war with one another,” said Mark Naison, …

Machine Learning Isn’t Just for Computer Science Majors, Professors’ Award-Winning Study Shows

Machine Learning Isn’t Just for Computer Science Majors, Professors’ Award-Winning Study Shows

Machine learning doesn’t have to be hard to grasp. In fact, learning to apply it can even be fun—as shown by three Fordham professors’ efforts that earned them a new prize for innovative instruction. Their method for introducing machine learning in chemistry classes has been honored with the inaugural James C. McGroddy Award for Innovation …

Scholarship Donor Invests in Sociology, a Data-Driven Field for a Complex World

Scholarship Donor Invests in Sociology, a Data-Driven Field for a Complex World

To help those who want to pursue social justice as a career, a Fordham alumna is creating a scholarship for students majoring in sociology—in her words, a “big picture” discipline ideal for making sense of a complex world. Sociology is “unrecognized in its potential,” said Josephine Ruggiero, Ph.D., GSAS ’70, ’73, professor emerita of sociology …

‘We Have Pushed the Limits of Knowledge’: At GSAS Diploma Ceremony, Graduates Look to What’s Next

‘We Have Pushed the Limits of Knowledge’: At GSAS Diploma Ceremony, Graduates Look to What’s Next

At a diploma ceremony on May 20, part of Fordham’s 178th commencement, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences celebrated students who were graduating with greater knowledge not only about their academic fields but also about themselves. One student speaker, Alice Grissom, said a master’s program serves “as a kind of trial period” that can …

2023 Commencement Snapshots: Graduate Students Look to the Future

2023 Commencement Snapshots: Graduate Students Look to the Future

Students from Fordham’s graduate schools reflected on their time at the University on Commencement Day. First in Their Families Lori-Ann Andrews was inspired to pursue a dual degree in early childhood and early childhood special education at the Graduate School of Education, where she wanted to “utilize the downtime” that came with the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Stevie Wonder Performs for Class of 2023, Challenges Grads to ‘Be Activists’

Stevie Wonder Performs for Class of 2023, Challenges Grads to ‘Be Activists’

Music legend Stevie Wonder performed two songs from the Fordham Commencement stage, but not before offering the Class of 2023 some inspiration—and a challenge.   “The youth are going to make the difference. I believe in you. That’s why I sing, and that’s why I’m motivated,” he said at the May 20 ceremony, just after receiving …

Journalism Students Learn Ropes at Spanish-Language TV Station

Journalism Students Learn Ropes at Spanish-Language TV Station

Journalism students in Fordham’s Master of Arts in Public Media program have been interning at HITN, a Brooklyn-based, Spanish-language television station dedicated to educational and cultural programming. The station has also hired graduates of the program. Ysabella Escalona, GSAS ’22, a recent graduate, and Viviana Villalva, a current student in the master of public media …

Alice Grissom, GSAS ’23: Lessons from the Middle Ages

Alice Grissom, GSAS ’23: Lessons from the Middle Ages

Alice Grissom learned a lot from a woman in a box. To earn a master’s degree in medieval studies, Grissom, who uses they/them pronouns, devoted their master’s thesis to exploring the lives of anchorites, members of a Christian Monastic tradition primarily practiced by women from the 11th to the 16th century. Anchorites voluntarily confined themselves …

The Right Chemistry: Department Earns Prestigious Awards

The Right Chemistry: Department Earns Prestigious Awards

Fordham’s Department of Chemistry was recognized for its research and teaching excellence this year with several prestigious awards. In October, the department won the Jean Dreyfus Lectureship Award, a highly competitive award from the Dreyfus Foundation that was only given to seven universities in the United States this year. Hosting Lectures on CRISPR, DNA Repair, …