The Graduate Center
Founded in 1961, the Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting
institution of the City University of New York (CUNY). An
internationally-recognized center for advanced studies and
a national model for public doctoral education, the Graduate
Center offers over thirty doctoral
programs in the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences, as
well as a number of health
sciences doctorates and master's
programs. A recent Academic Analytics Faculty Scholarly Productivity
Index placed ten of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. programs
among the top ten in the country, and six were ranked in
the top five.
Many of its faculty members are among the world's leading
scholars in their respective fields. The school enrolls approximately
4,000 students from throughout the United States, as well as
from about eighty foreign countries, and has an alumni base
of 10,000. The Graduate Center also houses more than
thirty
interdisciplinary
research centers and institutes focused on
areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific
concerns. Its nationally unique consortium of 1,700 faculty
members consists of a core faculty of 125 Graduate Center appointments
supplemented by over 1,600 additional faculty members drawn
from throughout CUNY's eleven senior colleges and New York
City's leading cultural and scientific institutions.
All doctoral programs are administered from the Graduate Center.
However, due to the consortial nature of doctoral study at
the Graduate Center, courses take place at the Graduate Center
as well as at CUNY colleges. For the most part, courses in
the social sciences, humanities, and mathematics convene at
the Graduate Center, as do several courses in the sciences
that require no laboratory work and courses for the clinical
doctorates in public health and nursing science. Science courses
requiring laboratory work convene on CUNY college campuses
as do select courses for the doctorate in audiology and all
courses for the doctorate in physical therapy. Courses for
the M.A. in journalism take place at 219 West 40th Street in
Manhattan.
Also affiliated with the Graduate Center are four University
Center programs: the CUNY
Baccalaureate Program for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies through
which undergraduates can earn bachelor's degrees by taking
courses at any of the CUNY colleges; the CUNY
School of Professional Studies and the associated Joseph
S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies;
the CUNY
Graduate School of Journalism,
which offers a master's degree in journalism; and Macaulay
Honors College.
Many of the 10,000 students who have earned doctorates from
the Graduate Center since 1965 are now among the leaders in
our nation's teaching and research efforts, whether at universities,
in the nonprofit sector, in business, or in government. By
preparing a group of highly qualified professionals from diverse
backgrounds to assume leadership roles in a variety of fields,
the Graduate Center is filling an urgent need in the city,
the state, and the nation.
Through its extensive array of public programs, the Graduate
Center has become a vibrant hub of New York City’s intellectual
and cultural life. These offerings are wide-ranging and include
lectures, conferences, book talks, art exhibitions, concerts,
dance, and theatrical events.
