The New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS) is a school within New York University (NYU) founded in 1886 by Henry Mitchell MacCracken, establishing NYU as the second academic institution in the United States to grant Ph.D. degrees on academic performance and examination.
Along with the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, the Graduate School participates in the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (IUDC), which allows doctoral students to cross-register at member institutions.
Students hail from more than 200 undergraduate institutions, all fifty states, and from more than 100 other countries.
GSAS has one of the largest and most diverse international student populations in the United States.
GSAS offers 48 programs and many interdisciplinary and advanced degrees, including doctorates, master's, and certificates.