FAQs: Capstone For Students
Most, but not all, international Capstone projects provide opportunity for travel abroad. If your Capstone client requires travel for fieldwork, Wagner will support you by paying for your airfare to your fieldwork destination. The Wagner travel fund does NOT pay for accommodations, meals, in-country travel, transportation to/from the airport, visas, or vaccines.
If you know of a prospective client interested in proposing a Capstone project, please refer them to the Capstone employer webpage, which provides background information and instructions for applying to the program.
Capstone is a 3-credit course that occurs only over the fall-spring academic year. Students enroll in 1.5 credits in the fall first, and 1.5 credits in the spring.
Visit the Capstone for Students page for more information.
All types of official NYU Transcripts are processed by the Office of the Registrar.
There are two ways you can waive a course:
The Research Capstone is designed for students who know they want to pursue a career in quantitative research, most of whom expect to go on to pursue a Ph.D. Students still work in teams in the Research Capstone section; the primary difference from other Capstone sections is that teams don't have a formal outside client.
Several factors play a role in team composition: interest in various projects, skill sets needed for a given project, diversity of skill sets and experience on each team, and team size. The specific team selection details vary depending on the individual Capstone instructors. A typical Capstone team comprises three to five students.
Course requirements include: enrollment in both semesters; attendance and participation in class activities and client and team meetings; completion of assignments on time; conducting field work; negotiating scope of work agreements with clients; occasional large group discussions out of class time; and the preparation and presentation of the team's findings.
Each Capstone team can be reimbursed up to $500 for expenses such as reproduction, binding, local travel, and/or preparation of Capstone documents and display materials.
Students are graded on both the products they deliver to their clients and evidence of progressive learning throughout the course. Grades account for students' participation in both class activities and team work and their ability to act on peer and faculty feedback.
Capstone teams can reserve meeting spaces at NYU's Bobst Library online. Some client organizations may also have spaces available for meetings and final presentations.
To be eligible for Capstone, all students must have declared their specialization, commenced PER (if required), and have earned at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA.