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    Progressive Scholarship

    Study with leading scholars and public intellectuals committed to expanding the boundaries of social thought, in one of the world’s hubs of scholarship and culture, New York City.

    Critical Engagement

    Ground your academic study in theoretical frameworks, empirical research, and critical engagement with today's most pressing social issues.

    Interdisciplinary Centers

    Participate in academic exploration, conduct research, and engage in dialogue with leading thinkers as you reframe local and global challenges at our centers and institutes.

  • Progressive since our founding, The New School for Social Research has upheld The New School's legendary tradition of challenging orthodoxy.

    Our graduate programs in the social sciences, philosophy, and history foster a rigorous environment of engaged academic scholarship and public discourse. Study alongside prominent faculty to shape the intellectual future of the school and the entire university, and be a force of new thought, knowledge, and ideas in the world.

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  • Next Fall 2023 Application Deadline Is May 5!

    All applicants are eligible for merit-based scholarships. More than 90 percent of new full-time master’s degree students receive merit scholarships, which average 49 percent of the cost of tuition. 


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  • New & Noteworthy

    A selection of recent news and announcements about The New School for Social Research.
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      Alum Jordi Graupera Pays Tribute to Richard J. Bernstein

      In spring 2022, Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, continued investigating the questions he’d been asking his whole career—about right, wrong, and what we owe to one another. He died shortly after. Jordi Graupera, PhD Philosophy 2018, attended his final courses and wrote about them for the New Yorker.

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      WATCH: Clara Mattei Launches Her New Book

      In The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press, 2022), political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and capitalism itself—in times of social upheaval from below.

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  • Departments

  • Leaders in their fields of study, our faculty shape public debate, advance academic research, and push the boundaries of social sciences, philosophy, and history around the world..

  • Participate in scholarly exploration at our centers and institutes. Alongside faculty, engage in interdisciplinary research, participate in policy debates, and dialogue with thought leaders to reframe the way you approach problems and develop solutions.

  • Scholars & Work

    At NSSR, critical thinkers from around the world break new ground, challenge the status quo, and reshape contemporary thought to address urgent social and political problems. Explore their work.

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    Students across our university lead a national network of scholars dedicated to incarceration reform.

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    Alin Coman, Psychology PhD alum and now Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University

     Graduating student outcomes

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    Graduates

    To apply to any of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.