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.
NYU Wagner sees public service as work that matters, work of public importance--wherever it happens. What does it mean for work to "matter”? At one level, it means that the work of public service has an impact on others, that it touches issues of public concern, that it is motivated more by mission than by money. Public service work also "matters" at another level: those of us who choose public service want our work to matter in our lives. We choose public service careers because we want our work to reflect our values; we want careers that satisfy our need to be of service or to transform some part of the world.
Composing Your Career is intended for those of us who know we want our work to matter but are still curious about how we will do that. It is a guide that offers questions, not answers. It assumes, with a nod to Mary Catherine Bateson1, that composing a career is a journey over time.
Key to NYU Wagner's vision is that we will be a transformative experience for our students. We want to be a place that engages your active participation, that attracts students who want not just a credential but an education that continues to challenge and inform over time. We know that the students who get the most from NYU Wagner are those who approach it actively, who create their education with us, not just accept what is given. This is one approach to that possibility.
1 Bateson, Mary Catherine. Composing a Life. New York: Penguin Books. 1990
While this guide is not something you must work your way through in a certain order, it might be helpful to start at the beginning
Getting StartedOnce you have a sense of the direction(s) in which you may be headed, we encourage you to be a SEER:
Then, we encourage you to be thoughtful about how you present yourself to the world, particularly employers. For this purpose, we have included:
Crafting Your Message
This guide walks you through a series of guiding questions, lists resources and suggests next steps - all to help you develop your own personal strategic plan while you are in graduate school and for years to come.
Reading through the whole guide at some relatively early stage in your studies may prove useful, but it is not absolutely necessary. The guide will work best for you if you think of it as a framework and not a manual. Make your own choices, using CYC as a jumping off point
