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The New School for Social Research

Graduate Programs

  • Graduate students at The New School for Social Research in New York City ask the kind of questions that challenge the status quo across the social sciences and humanities.

    Guided by rigorous scholarship and a desire to apply academic discourse and discovery to current social problems, they critically examine interdisciplinary fields to become a force of new knowledge and ideas in the world.

    Update: The New School for Social Research no longer requires the GRE for admission.

  • Anthropology (MA, PhD)

    • 30-credit MA, 60-credit PhD.
    • Combine basic concepts of anthropology with critical exploration of the nature and role of ethnography in this leading graduate program.
    • Graduate minor in Anthropology and Design; subject area in Science and Society.
    • Recent courses include Colonial (and Other) Histories of the Present, Ethnographies from the Edge of Capitalism, Politics of Memory.

    Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism (MA)

    • 30 credits, full-time or part-time, day or evening classes.
    • Prepare to lead the future of serious intellectual publishing in a program that combines the analysis of print and emerging technologies, rigorous coursework, and design experience.
    • Recent courses include Cultural Criticism for Political Reporting and Writing.

    Economics (MA, MS, PhD)

    • 30-credit MA, 45-credit MS, 60-credit PhD.
    • Explore a wide spectrum of heterodox theories and methodologies, including post-Keynesian, Marxian, and neo-Ricardian.
    • Curriculum emphasizes the evolution of economic thought, financial markets and institutions, development and labor markets, social policy, and economics of class, gender, race, and ethnicity.
    • STEM-designated programs.

    Global Political Economy and Finance (MA)

    • 30-credit specialized graduate economics program.
    • Develop analytical and policy skills through economic and statistical analysis and examination of contemporary global political economy.
    • Prepare for career paths in finance, government, business, labor organizing, international development, and academia.
    • STEM-designated program.

    Historical Studies (MA)

    • 30-credit collaborative program.
    • Design your own interdisciplinary curriculum as you develop critical, heterodox approaches to historical questions.
    • Recent courses include Dictatorship in History and Theory, Historical Methods and Sources, Donald Trump as History. 

    Liberal Studies (MA)

    • 30-credit interdisciplinary program.
    • Develop contextual thinking and writing skills across multiple humanities disciplines in a positive, judgment-free environment.
    • Design your own curriculum and engage with leading scholars, journalists, and intellectual writers.

    Philosophy (MA, PhD)

    • 30-credit MA, 60-credit PhD.
    • Study in a philosophy program developed by renowned scholars including Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Aron Gurwitsch, and Reiner Schürmann.
    • Focus on the history of Western thought and the modern European philosophical tradition. Recent courses include Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Plato and the Sophists, Critique of Aesthetic Reason.
    • Optional concentration in Psychoanalytic Studies, exploring the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy, especially in continental philosophical thought.

    Politics (MA, PhD)

    • 30-credit MA, 60-credit PhD.
    • Study the relations and manifestations of power in contexts ranging from the family to the transnational environment, paying close attention to historical and contemporary movements.
    • Recent courses include Democracy and the Masses, Populism and Nationalism, Rethinking Class.

    Psychology (MA, PhD)

    • 30-credit MA, 60-credit PhD.
    • Study all the major fields of modern psychology, with an emphasis on research sensitive to social and cultural influences and concerns.
    • Recent courses include Cognitive Psychology; Evidence-Based Treatment; Language and Thought; and Political Psychology.
    • MA options include concentration in Mental Health and Substance Abuse  Counseling; graduate minor in Global Mental Health; subject area in  Applied Psychology and Design.
    • PhD programs in Clinical Psychology and in Cognitive, Social, and Developmental Psychology.

    Sociology (MA, PhD)

    • 30-credit MA, 60-credit PhD.
    • Examine social life through the lens of The New School’s historical connection to European social science.
    • Core areas of research reflect faculty interests: social inequalities; culture and politics; law, rights, and citizenship; historical and comparative sociology; and cities and publics.

  • 70+

    countries of origin represented by students at NSSR

  • 87%

    of master’s and certificate students awarded merit scholarships (2022).

  • Professor Milberg focuses on the relationship between economics and politics, investigating the global phenomenon of authoritarianism and its effects on social welfare.

  • Why the New School?

    The New School for Social Research was founded in 1919 as a home for progressive thinkers, and housed the University in Exile in 1933, providing an academic haven for scholars persecuted in Nazi Europe. The school became the foundation for a comprehensive university—The New School—and continues the legacy of critical thought, civic engagement, and academic freedom today.

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