The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The heart of NYU Wagner's programs is our faculty. An amalgam of full-time, clinical/research/visiting, and adjunct professors, they are outstanding teachers, expert researchers and committed practitioners.
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is home to research and policy centers, institutes, and initiatives that focus on solving urban problems and strengthening public policy and public service nationally and around the world.
Ranked #6 in Public Affairs by U.S. News & World Report, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service educates the future leaders of public, nonprofit, healthcare and private sector organizations addressing the world's critical issues.
Students arrive at NYU with the desire to serve the public. They leave with the skills and experience to bring about change. Combining coursework in management, finance and policy with cutting-edge research and work experience in urban communities, the NYU Wagner education will enable you to transform your personal commitment into public leadership.
Whether in their first or last semester, students at NYU Wagner have many resources to help them navigate their way to graduation.
NYU Wagner's Office of Career Services (OCS) provides students and alumni with the resources needed to build successful public service careers. Explore our resources for Job seekers and employers.
Welcome to the Wagner Alumni WebPages, where you can find information about resources for alumni from the school, join the Wagner Alumni Listserv and much more.
Read about news and ideas from NYU Wagner faculty and alumni and keep in touch with interesting and useful events at the school.
These are exciting times for public service and for the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. As NYU Wagner embraces a new group of students committed to public service, we find ourselves strategically situated to reframe and transform public service education in the 21st century. Our vision identifies public service as work of public importance wherever it happens. It recognizes that limited approaches are increasingly ineffective in a world that is as fast-changing, globally interrelated and complex as ours has become.
This requires us to move beyond educating our students for one role or one sector. Public service careers inevitably span sectors, demand role flexibility, and respect and reflect context. We bridge divides and cross boundaries. We value both theory and practice and operate—whether in our research, our teaching or our service—from the integration of the two. Locating specific programs in a general school of public service exposes students to a broad curriculum and also enables them to achieve depth by issue as well as by professional specialization.
Our aspiration is to prepare students to produce results that matter. We teach our students to consider frame, apply the relevant analytics, create appropriate intervention strategies and assess results. The context in which students are able to do this work is unique to NYU Wagner. We have an urban focus and a global reach. The global and the local intersect in New York City in ways they don’t anywhere else.
NYU Wagner is the home of 38 full-time, tenure track faculty with incredible strength in teaching and research. Although they come from many disciplines and fields—economics, finance, sociology, political science, law, planning, health care—they share a strong commitment to addressing issues of critical public importance, in the classroom and in their research. They have chosen NYU Wagner as their home because they understand that today’s public service issues require interdisciplinary approaches and creative solutions. Both domestically and globally, faculty research examines issues of social disparity and access, urban and health policy, organizational strategies and resources, and leadership.
Students come to NYU Wagner seeking to transform their personal commitment into public service leadership. Our vision of public service leadership is not a still-life snapshot but a fast-moving, reel-to-reel frame. The impact of public service work by NYU Wagner students will transform the communities they serve and the work they do. We invite you to learn more about Wagner by exploring our website.
Ellen Schall
Dean
