The Campus

New York City's Graduate Center

When you choose to engage in doctoral study at the Graduate Center, you necessarily choose New York City. Whether or not your field of study leads you directly to urban research (many of our scholars do take this path), your graduate school experience will be shaped by the metropolis – its challenges, its complexities, and its opportunities. Our metropolitan setting often leads to socially committed scholarship; the public-minded scholar has a long history at the Graduate Center.

Among the riches that New York offers are countless learned societies, professional journals and organizations, research libraries, and other specialized resources of great interest to the advanced scholar. The City is also the capital of communications, finance, biomedical research, and other sectors that can provide CUNY's experts-in-training with additional internship and research opportunities as well as employment possibilities in a real-world context.

Your hard work may lead you to the forefront of metropolitan life in such activities as interning at the United Nations, combing the archives at the Manhattan Theatre Club, curating at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or consulting with the Department of Transportation. And in your studies, you will profit from the many opportunities and challenges offered in all five boroughs of this great city.

As you study for your doctoral courses and research and write your papers and your dissertation, you will have within easy reach for rest and relaxation New York's public parks, its sports events and vast choice of restaurants, and its rich selection of cultural events: concerts, theatre, museum exhibitions, art gallery exhibitions, and movies.