Located on NYU's founding campus in Greenwich Village, the Steinhardt School offers bachelor's, master's, advanced certificate, and doctoral programs in the fields of applied psychology, art, education, health, media, and music.

[14] The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs.

[19] Undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degree programs in Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Studies, and Global Public Health.

[22] Undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs are available in areas of study such as childhood, literacy, environmental, science, and bilingual education, with initial and professional certification options.

[25] It collaborates on research projects, trains graduate students, directs discussion groups, and leads a Methods and Seminar Series and a biannual Statistics in Society lecture.

[29] Founded in 1995 as a partnership between Steinhardt and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, IESP conducts non-partisan scientific research about US education and related social issues.

[32] Reading Recovery is a short-term early literacy intervention designed to accelerate progress and lift achievement levels for the low-performing first-grade students.

Students receive 30 minutes of daily, one-on-one instruction from a trained Reading Recovery teacher for 12 to 20 weeks.

NYU Steinhardt is the primary teacher leader training site for Reading Recovery in NY and NJ.

[33] The Research Alliance conducts rigorous studies on topics that matter to New York City's public schools.

It maintains a unique archive of longitudinal data on city schools and communities and advances educational equity by providing non-partisan evidence about policies and practices that promote student development and academic success.

[34] The Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy defines and assesses challenges facing colleges and universities.

The Collaborative conducts year-round programs for public school teachers to incorporate environmental education opportunities in their classrooms.

[41] Coursework includes Abnormal Psychology, Cross-Cultural Counseling, Human Growth and Development, and Research and Evaluation in Behavioral Sciences.