Fordham University of New York
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Bronx, NY
Fordham University of New York, located both in the heart of bustling Manhattan at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, as well as in the green triangle of The Bronx, between the New York Botanical Gardens and the world-famous Bronx Zoo/New York Wildlife Conservatory.
Established in 1841, Fordham University of New York was one of the first universities in the United States founded on the Jesuit model of education. This model is based on a tradition of teaching which seeks the cura personalis: care for the whole person of the student, in addition to the cultivation of the intellect and the imagination of students. Fordham is a private, coeducational, doctoral granting institution, governed by an independent and non-sectarian board of trustees under a charter granted by the New York State Legislature. Fordham has served American society for over 150 years by providing education in liberal arts and sciences at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Comprised of four undergraduate and six graduate schools, the university is composed of over 14,000 students on three campuses in New York City (Bronx and Manhattan) and nearby Westchester county. The combined university faculties comprise over 500 members. Individual divisions of Fordham University are consistently found on lists of the best schools in the nation. Approximately 1,000 students currently study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
The Community
The University's three campuses are found in three highly diverse areas of lower New York state. The main campus is located in the Rose Hill community of The Bronx, a verdant and diverse area in which the University is bordered by The New York Botanical Gardens, The New York Zoological Society (the Bronx Zoo), and the famous Little Italy section of the Bronx , home to many current graduate and undergraduate students at Fordham &called by The New York Daily News "one of the safest neighborhoods in New York City."
The Lincoln Center campus is located two blocks from Central Park at Columbus Circle, and one block from the cultural heart of New York, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Some students at the Rose Hill campus live at or near the Lincoln Center campus and commute to the Bronx via the University's Ram Van intercampus service.
Some graduate students take classes at the Westchester campus extension, located at St. Joseph's Marymount College, in Tarrytown, New York. Conservation biology students do research in Westchester at the Louis Calder Center in Armonk, New York, approximately 40 minutes from the Bronx.
Programs of study and degree requirements
The University is organized into four divisions of the undergraduate division, and six autonomous graduate schools: the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Business Administration, the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, the Graduate School of Social Service, and the School of Law. Degrees offered in the various graduate schools include post-Master's Certificates of Professional Achievement and Certification, Master's degrees (MA, MS, MBA, and LLM), and the Doctorate (PhD, EdD, and JD).
Professional specializations in the Graduate Schools of Education, Social Service, Business, and the School of Law and include human resources; special education; primary, secondary and higher educational administration; counseling, educational and school psychology; curriculum and teaching; social work; law and legal studies; accounting; taxation; professional accounting; communications and media management; finance; business economics; information and communication systems; management; marketing; legal and ethical studies; entrepreneurship studies; global professional and transnational studies.
Academic specializations in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences include master's and doctorates in biological sciences (cell and molecular, ecology); classical languages and literatures (classical Greek and Latin literatures, medieval Latin literatures, and classical philology); communications (public communications); computer science (communication and networks, computation and algorithms, information systems and application); economics (economic development, financial economics, industrial organizational economics, international political economy, monetary and financial economics); English language and literatures (all periods of British literatures from Old English to the 20th century, American literatures from colonial times to the present, Anglophone literatures, literary criticism); history (medieval European, early modern and modern European, American, and gender history); philosophy (epistemology, ethics, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophical resources, political philosophy, social philosophy); political science (comparative politics, political economy, international politics, American politics, political philosophy); psychology (applied developmental, clinical, developmental, psychometrics); sociology (criminology and justice studies, demography, ethnicity studies, sociology of religion); and theology (biblical studies, contemporary systematics, historical theology & including patristics, medieval, 19th and 20th century, and American religious history).
Master's degrees are also offered in public communications, computer science, international political economy and development (IPED), liberal studies, and medieval studies.
Facilities & Resources
The research facilities of Fordham University are substantial and continue to grow. Library facilities are housed in three separate facilities, including Fordham's stunning recently-opened William D. Walsh Family Library on the Rose Hill campus. The composite holdings of the University Libraries comprise over 1.7 million volumes, as well as numerous databases, specialized collections, manuscripts, periodicals, and serials. In addition, Fordham University is a designated repository by the federal government for all federal documents and publications. Fordham supports computer systems ranging from DEC and Digital Alpha VAX clusters, several microcomputer laboratories, as well as T1 lines to the Internet and T3 lines connecting the university campuses.
Individual departments of the University belong to various professional organizations and resource consortia, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, the American School of Classical Studies, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Council of Graduate Schools, and the New York Doctoral Consortium. The last aforementioned organization affords Fordham's doctoral studies the ability to take classes and use the facilities of several major doctoral institutions in New York, including Columbia University, New York University, New School University, and the City University of New York Graduate Center.
The University is accredited by a variety of professional educational associations, including the Middle States Association, and its programs and degrees are registered with the Board of Regents of the State of New York. Fordham University is an academic institution that, in compliance with Federal, State and local laws, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, gender, national origin, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran's status, or disability. A Section 504 and Title IX compliance officer is available to address any complaints alleging any discrimination on the basis of disability or sex/gender.
Expenses and Aid
Costs
Tuition: All students - $980 per credit.
Fees: Activity (including basic student health coverage) is $60 per semester; Technology fee is $60 per semester. Some programs have laboratory fees as set by departments.
Housing
Limited university-sponsored off-campus housing is available nearby for unmarried students for approximately $5000 per year. Board and meals may be obtained on campus in a variety of price plans. Most Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students live in nearby neighborhood housing in the Belmont and Pelham neighborhoods. Students who have been accepted to the Graduate School are given access to the Graduate School's housing website. Through the site, students can view housing opportunities or contact potential roommates in a variety of Bronx and Westchester neighborhoods.
Financial Aid
Financial support for graduate students is primarily merit-based. This support is available to limited numbers of new and returning students each year. This support is offered in the form of graduate and research fellowships, as well as teaching fellowships for doctoral students. A number of specialized departmental scholarships and fellowships are also available to qualified applicants. Most scholarships and fellowships are awarded with work or research obligations. Tuition remission awards normally covering 24 hours of full-time study each semester are also periodically awarded to qualified applicants.
How to Apply
Early application is encouraged. All psychology applications are due by January 10th, and all other financial aid applications (including application for admission) are due by January 17th.
Applications can be obtained through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website and both downloadable printable forms and electronically transmittable forms and are available via the GSAS homepage: http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/ . Forms are also available through the GSAS Office of Admissions (FUGA@murray.fordham.edu).
Who to contact
Office of Graduate Admissions
GSAS
Fordham University
216 Keating Hall
Bronx, NY 10458-9993
Telephone: 718/817-4416 Fax: 718/817-3566
E-mail: FUGA@murray.fordham.edu
The Faculty/Program Directors
Biological Sciences
Dr. Berish Rubin, Chairperson
160 Larkin Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3640
Classical Languages and Literatures
Dr. John Clark, Chairperson
222 Administration Building, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3130
Communication and Media Studies
Dr.Lance Strate, Chairperson
430 Faculty Memorial Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY
10458
718/817-4860
Computer Science
Dr. Frank Hsu, Chairperson
340 James Mulcahy Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-4480
Economics
Dr. Dominick Salvatore, Chairperson
530 Dealy Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-4048
English Language and Literatures
Dr. Frank Boyle, Chairperson
536 Dealy Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817- 4005
History
Dr. Robert Jones, Chairperson
612 Dealy Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3925
International Political Economy and Development
Dr. Henry Schwalbenberg, Program Director
511E Dealy Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-4064
Liberal Studies
Dr. H. Wayne Storey, Program Director
313 Keating Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-4675
Medieval Studies
Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski, Program Director
405A Faculty Memorial Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-4656
Philosophy
Dr. Dominic Balestra, Chairperson
139C Collins Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3270
Political Science
Dr. Richard Fleisher, Chairperson
636 Faber Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3950
Psychology
Dr. Mary Procidano, Chairperson
346 Dealy Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3776
Sociology
Dr. Rosemary S. Cooney, Chairperson
407 Dealy Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3850
Theology
Dr. Harry S. Nasuti, Chairperson
101 Collins Hall, Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-3240
Graduate Directors of Admission
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Craig W. Pilant, PhD Assistant Dean, GSAS Fordham University
216 Keating Hall
Bronx, NY 10458-9993
718/817-4416
http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/
The Graduate School of Business Administration
Ms. Kathy W. Pattison Assistant Dean, GBA Fordham University
33 W. 60th Street Room 400
New York, NY 10023
212/636-6200
http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/
The Graduate School of Education
Mr. Joseph Korovec Director of Admissions, GSE Fordham University
1115 Lowenstein Hall
113 W. 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
212/636-6400
http://www.fordham.edu/gse/
The Graduate School of Religion & Religious Education
Rev. Vincent Novak, SJ Dean, GSRRE Fordham University
303 Keating Hall
Bronx, NY 10458
718/817-4800
http://www.fordham.edu/gsre/grrb_main.html
The Graduate School of Social Service
Ms. Elaine Gerald Assistant Dean, GSS Fordham University
726 Lowenstein Hall
113 W. 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
212/636-6600
http://www.fordham.edu/gss/index.htm)
The School of Law
Mr. Kevin Downey, Esq. Director of Admissions Fordham University
122 Law School
140 W. 62nd Street New York, NY 10023
212/636-6810
http://www.fordham.edu/law/