Global Affairs

Our Approach

Throughout your course of study as a graduate student, you will learn to not only analyze systems, institutions, and power, but design new possibilities: to map problems, visualize futures, work with communities, prototype solutions, and communicate ideas in ways that can move governments, organizations, and societies to action.

Located in the heart of the global capital of international diplomacy, business, and social activism, Global Affairs graduate program is organized around interdisciplinary pathways — guided electives that let students become immersed on the critical issues that matter most to them, while building applied analytic skills and tools alongside subject area expertise in Technology, Design and Infrastructure, Global Inequality, Development and Social Change, Climate and Urban Futures, and Global Orders.

New York City offers opportunities for internships in diverse fields and organizations, allowing students to explore career options as well as integrate theory, policy, and practice through field-based learning in practicum projects. Through studios, community partnerships, and an optional intensive International Study Trip or UN Study (?) offered annually, students test their thinking in collaboration with institutions and stakeholders affecting change in the world today.

Career Opportunities/Outcomes

Graduates of this program emerge equipped to work with, and lead cross-sectoral teams, launch new initiatives, and design innovative, social justice-driven alternatives to existing global systems and structures:

• International organizations — multilateral institutions that work on global governance, development, climate policy, and human rights.
• Policy research and think tanks — institutes and policy centers conducting analysis on geopolitics, global political economy, and technology governance.
• Nonprofits, NGOs, and advocacy — program management, strategic planning, and research roles addressing climate justice, migration, and global development.
• Consulting and social impact firms – private sector companies that sit between government, civil society and business.
• Government and the public sector — policy and strategy roles at the municipal, state, and federal level, especially in global cities like New York.
• Technology and AI governance — tech policy, digital rights advocacy, and the social and political implications of emerging technologies — a fast-growing field the Phase II proposal specifically flags as a competitive differentiator.